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!
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.
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.
Oh great. Nukes in the hands of a leader who hallucinates.
And interestingly, he (12th imam) is to rule for 7 years and his 7 year rule will start as a time of peace. ---This just happens to be the same description that the bible says about the anti-christ.