Posted on 12/20/2005 4:22:25 AM PST by unionblue83
Lest you get carried away with the recent good news from Iraq, consider what's happening next door in Iran. The wild pronouncements of the new Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have gotten sporadic press ever since he called for Israel to be wiped off the map. He subsequently amended himself to say that Israel should simply be extirpated from the Middle East map and moved to some German or Austrian province. Perhaps near the site of an old extermination camp?
Except that there were no such camps, indeed no Holocaust at all, says Ahmadinejad. Nothing but "myth," a "legend" that was "fabricated . . . under the name 'Massacre of the Jews.' " This brought the usual reaction from European and American officials, who, with Churchillian rage and power, called these statements unacceptable. That something serious might accrue to Iran for this -- say, expulsion from the United Nations for violating its most basic principle by advocating the outright eradication of a member state -- is, of course, out of the question.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
From the article:
"But it gets worse. The president of a country about to go nuclear is a confirmed believer in the coming apocalypse. Like Judaism and Christianity, Shiite Islam has its own version of the messianic return -- the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam. The more devout believers in Iran pray at the Jamkaran mosque, which houses a well from which, some believe, he will emerge.
When Ahmadinejad unexpectedly won the presidential elections, he immediately gave $17 million of government funds to the shrine. Last month Ahmadinejad said publicly that the main mission of the Islamic Revolution is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam.
And as in some versions of fundamentalist Christianity, the second coming will be accompanied by the usual trials and tribulations, death and destruction. Iranian journalist Hossein Bastani reported Ahmadinejad saying in official meetings that the hidden imam will reappear in two years.
So a Holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes that the end is not only near but nearer than the next American presidential election. (Pity the Democrats. They cannot catch a break.) This kind of man would have, to put it gently, less inhibition about starting Armageddon than a normal person. Indeed, with millennial bliss pending, he would have positive incentive to, as they say in Jewish eschatology, hasten the end."
and this:
"It gets worse. After his U.N. speech in September, Ahmadinejad was caught on videotape telling a cleric that during the speech an aura, a halo, appeared around his head right on the podium of the General Assembly. "I felt the atmosphere suddenly change. And for those 27 or 28 minutes, the leaders of the world did not blink. . . . It seemed as if a hand was holding them there, and it opened their eyes to receive the message from the Islamic Republic."
Negotiations to deny this certifiable lunatic genocidal weapons have been going nowhere. Everyone knows they will go nowhere. And no one will do anything about it."
Scary stuff!
:-)
Someone better get real about Iran soon. Time is short.
Then he should know he will be defeated.
The true God, the Judeo Christian God, will squash him like a nasty insect. This stuff doesn't scare me. It tells me the rapture of the church is coming soon! THAT is an awesome thought - I can hardly wait!
Would anybody miss these a$$holes if we just turn Iran into a glass-floored, self-lighting parking lot?
This guy is raving nuts, but he also may be on some drug too.
Charles knows that Israel is believed to possess the largest and most sophisticated nuclear arsenal outside of the five declared nuclear powers. Israel's submarines armed with nuclear weapons can not be taken out by Iran. Any attack by Iran will probably mean Iran, Syria and other Arab states would be piles of glass.
Great post and a must read. The Iranian president is a certifiable nut job on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons. The Israeli's know this and will take the appropriate action before it is too late.
"Europe? Are you kidding Either the US or Israel will have to step in to stop this madman."
Of course, we will have to do it..seems we have to do it all these days!!
It is not my post..but it is a must read! (grin)
Chinese Gung Fo flick place marker.
"This guy is raving nuts, but he also may be on some drug too."
Maybe Iran is practicing the dark art of hypnotism on the General Assembly..because it sures seems they are 'spell bound' by the enemies of this world. (sarcasm)
Well..let's let God make those decisions..shall we? Not some nutter running a nuclear powered Islamic State!
How quaint. Their savior is going to come from a hole in the ground.
Christians associate the underground with the devil and pray upward to the heavens. Muslims pray facing the ground with thier ass pointing to the heavens.
The world should say a collective prayer for Ariel Sharon. He may need the courage to act and save us all.
"Would anybody miss these a$$holes if we just turn Iran into a glass-floored, self-lighting parking lot?"
There are many reformers in Iran who are tired of the Mullahs and the radicals..can we at least give them safe passage out before we turn the place to glass?
"Would anybody miss these a$$holes if we just turn Iran into a glass-floored, self-lighting parking lot?"
YES!! Some FReepers have family and friends there.
BTTT!
The head of the snake will be cut off in less than a year.
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