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| - One problem that has consistently plagued both the Church in the middle ages and the Muslim world is lack of national unity. Despite their common loyalties to the Roman Catholic Church, France and the Empire of the Hapsburgs were enemies to the end, France even assisting both the Muslim Ottoman Empire and the Protestant Swedes. The Islamic World was, despite less numerous fracture lines, just as disunited, only one at the very beginning and, to some extent, under the Ottoman Empire. On February 14, 2009, the Valentine's Day Agreement was created and organized its members into the Crescent League. Later, the nations of the United Arab Emirates, Iraqistan and Pakistan joined. The Crescent League was created in an attempt to improve on the United Nations, and as such it has several limitation
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| - One problem that has consistently plagued both the Church in the middle ages and the Muslim world is lack of national unity. Despite their common loyalties to the Roman Catholic Church, France and the Empire of the Hapsburgs were enemies to the end, France even assisting both the Muslim Ottoman Empire and the Protestant Swedes. The Islamic World was, despite less numerous fracture lines, just as disunited, only one at the very beginning and, to some extent, under the Ottoman Empire. On February 14, 2009, the Valentine's Day Agreement was created and organized its members into the Crescent League. Later, the nations of the United Arab Emirates, Iraqistan and Pakistan joined. The Crescent League was created in an attempt to improve on the United Nations, and as such it has several limitations. While the UN embraced all sides and all factions, it also prevented any meaningful action from being done due to the conflicting interests. To avoid this, the Crescent League consists of mostly Sunni Muslim Nations that, to some extent, have the same goals. Another problem was lack of military authority. The UN's forces could only be sent by the Security Council (which was controlled by the 5 permanent members), and its forces were simply bottom-of-the-barrel forces from such nations as Bangladesh, many of which knew little of where they were going. Most of the members of the Crescent League (with major exceptions such as Turkey and Iraqistan) have agreed to, regardless of personal views, dispatch troops if the majority of the league chooses to do so. Lastly, the UN's prestige was badly weakened by its embracing of such rogue, counterproductive nations such as Zimbabwe and Iran. To prevent this, the Crescent League excluded Iran due to its constant inability to meet guidelines and its obvious extremism. The Crescent League has yet to be involved in any true major disputes, though, and it has yet to be tested. Its first Caliph, elected by Islamic Religious Leaders across the world, is Dr. Muzammil Siddiqui, an American Islamic Theologian..
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