We need to pray.........
Uh - huh....someone wake me when it’s time to panic.
“cheetah” or Cheater?
Yeah, who would have expected a 90 year old guy to croak? Mahdi called it!
“Though this Islamic prophecy itself is nonsensical, belief in it by many zealous Shiites is potentially significant.”
Islam explained in one sentence.
Stupid Saudis, stop naming your boys Abdullah, and this won’t happen!
They believe they will usher in their new age if they engage the Great Satan in a fight they should not be able to win.
MAD (mutually assured destruction) does not apply to Iran, and our State Department is so secular that they routinely discount any sincere religious belief that may motivate the Iranians. Fools. Because we Americans generally aren't religious, we cannot comprehend those who are motivated by it.
More correctly, our leaders aren't religious, they're secular. And that secular thinking underestimates the sincerity of belief the Other Side possesses in pursuit of its goals. We're all gonna die because of miscalculation.
I vote for a pre-emptive strike on Iran. All those in favor?
Eschatologists always think things fulfilled some prophecy or other, yet here we are. Only eschatologists wake up to a sun shining beautiful day and are disappointed.
I say, for the funeral we scrub James Taylor and turn Drunk Joe Biden loose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRXH7RkCZQ
Just cover up all of the wells. The the Mahdi cannot get out.
I was on this topic on another FR thread yesterday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3249694/posts?page=109#109
A few years back the then Iranian leader, Imadinnerjacket (or whatever)commissioned the release of a film about the 12th Imam for his Iranian audience.
It is important to note that the accuracy of the content of the film is not important. What is important is that there are people in the ME that believe it is true.
A few of the conditions necessary for the 12th Imam to arrive are the death of the Saudi King, the revolution in Yemen to name just two.
The Coming is Upon Us - Translation: Reza Kahlili
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwiadYT-N9k#t=822
There is also this;
Is Barack Obama the “promised warrior” coming to help the Hidden Imam of Shiite Muslims conquer the world?
http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/26/obama-iran-ahmadinejad-oped-cx_at_1026taheri.html
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According to the tradition, Imam Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (the prophet’s cousin and son-in-law) prophesied that at the End of Times and just before the return of the Mahdi, the Ultimate Saviour, a “tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West.” Commanding “the strongest army on earth,” the new ruler in the West will carry “a clear sign” from the third imam, whose name was Hussein Ibn Ali. The tradition concludes: “Shiites should have no doubt that he is with us.”
In a curious coincidence Obama’s first and second names–Barack Hussein–mean “the blessing of Hussein” in Arabic and Persian. His family name, Obama, written in the Persian alphabet, reads O Ba Ma, which means “he is with us,” the magic formula in Majlisi’s tradition.
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Obama also bears the name of an animal. Baraq was the name of Mohammed’s magic flying white horse. Make of that what you will.
Everyone pay attention, you have a front row seat to the beginning of Would War III...