Al-Qaeda wants to implement canon law.
 Outlining his strategy to topple the existing secular orders, Qutb argued in Milestones: "[It is necessary that] a Muslim community to come into existence which believes that there is no deity except God, which commits itself to obey none but God, denying all other authority, and which challenges the legality of any law which is not based on this belief
 the government of the rightly guiding caliphate, which is established on the basis of the sovereignty of sharia and not on the whims of the majority

