I say we send Mahmoud a Christmas card.
(Air mail, it's getting close to Christmas)
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.
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.
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.
BTTT!
The head of the snake will be cut off in less than a year.
From a Christian perspective, I find it "interesting" that their supposed "savior" - the 12th imam - is expected to return from a well - a hole in the ground. Where we come from, that's we're the bad guy dwells if you know what I mean.
