You are wrong, what im suggesting is not Pan Islamism because that is just a dumb concept. What im suggesting is to create Muslim Super states based on the concept of state viability in terms of natural, human, intellectual and military resources. GCC for example can be a good super state because when put together it has everything a viable country should have. A Muslim super state in Central Asia would look like this. They can adopt a model of Govt which suits them best.
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Horus, I don't think that Pan-Islamism in itself is a dumb concept. The problem is, how it has been applied in recent times and who has led the attempts to create an Pan-Islamic utopia. I call it an utopia because this cannot be any differently with the current Muslim rulers in power expect a few good apples here and there.
GCC cannot be a "superstate" on its own. We would have to add the nearby Arab Near East (Sham + Iraq). As it was supposed to be if not for British betrayal. In fact if we are talking about largely utopian states we (as in Arabs) might as well turn the Arab League into a EU-like organization.
As for Muslim superstates, if they ever will be created and IF (the big question) world powers will allow it (doubtful), I would say that common language, culture, history, geography will have to play a key role here otherwise, I am afraid that it will be futile. Something else other than just religion has to bound people together. Best example is how West Pakistan split from East Pakistan despite sharing the same religion and same majority sect (Sunni Islam).
What has even made something like the GCC/Arab League possible, as effective or ineffective (mostly the latter) as it is is a common language, culture, history, religion, geography etc. Without those aspects such organizations would not exist as they would have no legitimacy or serve any purpose.
In the case of the GCC, we might border Iran directly, aside from the shallow Gulf that separates us both, but I cannot imagine us ever joining hands in a superstate as the situation is today. I rather do that with neighboring Egypt, Sham, Iraq and Maghreb. Essentially the Arab world. Also I doubt that Turks have any interests in joining hands with Iranians or Arabs or vice versa.
So an superstate composing the Near East/traditional Middle East seems very unlikely.
Your proposal seems more realistic IMO. But Russia (especially) and China will probably think differently about such a plan as will many people in all of those states probably.
That's not to say that such things would not be beneficial on most fronts if given a chance, trust and if everything worked according to plan. Previous Muslim Caliphates and kingdoms, sultanates, emirates, imamates, sheikdoms etc. (you name it) have proven successful despite being very diverse states. However whether it can be done in say 50 years time, I do not know, or in the current world as we know it. As I see it I would consider such ideas unrealistic more than realistic but what do I know?
Anyway first and foremost I believe that we need to learn how to treat minorities etc. better in our own countries before we begin to think about creating many times more diverse states (superstates).
Essentially a lot of good (potentially) could come out of such ideas but a also a lot of potential problems.
Personally I believe that we should first and foremost worry about improving our own countries and then the immediate region before we start to think about something greater.
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