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To: Dajjal
re post no.33

As you most likely know from reading my profile page, I am a born-again Christian. My God is God, my Jesus is Lord of all, and the Holy Spirit is with me. The Holy Bible is the book I read. Nowhere in the Bible have I ever found "the Dajjal" nor "the Dajjal" being noted as a metaphor for "Western Civ."

Are you from the UK and are you currently there now? Just curious.
35 posted on 11/04/2003 11:57:16 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy
Are you from the UK and are you currently there now? Just curious.

No to both. I've been to London, Ontario, if that counts.

Nowhere in the Bible have I ever found "the Dajjal" nor "the Dajjal" being noted as a metaphor for "Western Civ."

It strikes me as funny that the "Mahdi" and the "Dajjal" didn't even make the cut to get mentioned in the Koran. All the references to them are in the Hadith.

According to Prof. David Cook, the expert in the field of Islamic Millennialism, up until around 1980, all the mullahs preached very literally the classical description of the Dajjal as this giant with one blind eye who would nearly conquer the world by force here and seduction there. Cook says that somewhere around 1980, though, many imams began to treat the description of the concept of the Dajjal more as a symbol for the influence of Western culture throughout the globe. Cook says that books describing “the Dajjal” as the Western nations have been on Middle East best seller lists.

I have come upon a scarce few people in the last two years who knew enough about Islam to be conversant in their End Time beliefs, but none of them had any idea that mullahs were identifying the Dajjal with Western culture. All they knew was the classical, literal, "one-eyed giant" description of the Dajjal, like in those "monster" drawings in an earlier post. Thus, they don't see any connection between the Muslim millennial beliefs and the terrorism going on right now.

38 posted on 11/05/2003 1:16:46 AM PST by Dajjal
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