At the July 4, 2014 service, at the Grand Mosque in Mosul, Iraq, (or Mosul, Islamic State), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the trained clergyman who is leader of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria aka Islamic State) made his first public appearance since his fighting forces seize large swathes of Iraq and declared a Sunni Caliphate comprising of conquered portions of Syria and Iraq. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has declared himself Caliph of the new Caliphate, and technically this was his first public appearance as Caliph. Caliph means “successor” to the Prophet Muhammad as the head of state of the Caliphate, a Sunni State led by a supreme religious cum political leader. It is the title for the ruler of the Ummah, the Islamic social society governed by Sharia Law. . Declaring oneself Caliph of a Caliphate is a major political, religious, social and historical event. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s event is as historically significant as Henry VIII declaring himself head of the Catholic Church in Eng...