In 2005 I talked all this through with a British Brotherhood follower, Anas Altikriti, founder of a lobby and research group named after Cordoba, capital of the last Islamic Caliphate to have a toehold in Europe nearly 1,000 years ago. He admits to having been "extremely closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood" when he lived in the Arab Emirates, and today acknowledges that in London he also belongs to a "very similar school of thought". So I asked him if he thought that his spiritual leader's prophecy was perhaps a bit fantastical?
Altikriti: No, I believe in it because that is the prophecy of the Prophet. It's not an invention of Sheikh Qaradawi. The Prophet Muhammad, in a famous authentic Hadith, promised his companions that at a great time of strife —which was miraculous in itself — that Constantinople would be conquered and Rome . . .
Ware: So it's an aim to convert all those people . . .
Altikriti: Who said it was an aim? I said it was a prophecy.
Ware: I thought it was an imperative.
Altikriti: The only obligation that I have, the only obligation I have is what I call Da'wa.
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