I'm pretty sure most people in the Muslim world, like anywhere else, want to be left alone and get on with their lives, with a stable government and prosperity. Unfortunately, the Islamists seem to constitute a very vocal and well funded minority.
true, and i'd like to inform you that in 1919 egyptain men, women, young, and old went to the street in a revolution which had liberal motives and they succeeded and make no mistake all egypt's accomplishments, and cultural powers came during this area. this revolution toke place three years before the ottoman empire collapsed. in 1922 after the ottoman empire collapsed it sent waves of shock to the islamic world from the gulf all the way to morrocco. the king of saudi arabia wanted to be the next calliphate, king faruk of egypt wanted and the king of morocco as well wanted this title but they never managed to get all the backing of the islamic world. in 1928 came a long a guy who was sooooooo obessed wit this calliphate issue, not to mention had radical idea's and opinions regarding the liberal movement. this man was called hassan el bana, a scholar who was living in ismalya a city on the suez canal. just like any religous country boy he was shocked with how modern cairo was, how massive the role of women in the community was etc. any normal person would look at this and be amazed, not this person. so he went on to create the biggest cancer in the arab world, the muslim brotherhood. they had very radical idea's that revolved around bringing back the long lost glories of the ottoman empire. as you can imagine people did'nt digest this well, and so he went on to starting egypts first political assassination. they even toke up the nazi example, and there is documented proof he had strong ties with the nazi in the 40's and recieved large sums of money at a time egypt was part of the english empire. when the 1952 revolution came to power under the free solider's they were close thinking this might bring about there dream but where off course once again rejected. so this treq is the long story of there delusional fantasy. if there is any islamic empire they should consider is the islamic empire in Andalusia where muslims, christians, and jews lived together in harmony and brought about various contributions to the world.
finally, they dont understand your average arab does'nt give two shits about the ottoman empire, nor do they want any of these fantasies. all we want is to have a normal life, where we all have a chance to contribute to our nations, and have freedoms of thinking and having our own views with out being labelled.