brother brother786 i think we are thinking along teh same lines. I believe the GCC is the way forwards as the bloc and it shoudl invovle GCC countries plus somalia, egypt, tunisia, libya, turkey, malayisa, morocco, jordan, syria when assad goes inshallah may allah disfigure his face, and any other muslim country who still has some respect for islam. Jordan morocco and egypt are already in talks to join the GCC and they have already developed quite a bit of infrasture including an electricity grid taht goes to all the GCC countries, a unified armed force, a plan for a single currency, a rail goign to the different states, unified economy, freedom of travel in between GCC states and more. Id like an answer against teh ht arguement though because they say if we could do anti islamic governing for the benefit of islam the prophet was offered to become king of arabia abd turned it down because he would only settle for islamic rule. I need a refutation of the anti gradualist approach basically inshallah, a detailed one is much preferred. This is an exciting time with many great prospects but in my heart i dont feel fully content to support the efforts until i see the full evidences for and against gradualism also could you provide links to positive western articles. I agree this is an exciting time that holds a lot of promise and potential inshallah and we should be cautious in our optimism but hopeful to what the future holds inshallah