“We all have a higher goal … that is bigger than us, and that is the establishment of the caliphate,” he said in a video uploaded to his YouTube channel Jan. 29 titled “Constructive Criticism of Islamic Relief Organizations,” according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Jihad Watch Director Robert Spencer commented that in Sunni Islamic theology, the caliphate is “the sole legitimate government to which Muslims owe loyalty.”
“It is ruled by a caliph, the military, political, and spiritual successor of Muhammad, and implements Islamic law, which is considered the non-negotiable law of Allah,” he wrote.
“How loyal do you think Sheikh Omar Baloch is to the American system of non-establishment of a religion and a republican governmental system? That’s right, not loyal at all. But to question him about this would be ‘Islamophobic.'”...