Is Bin Laden Looking to 72.

Newsmax Insider Report (email) | September 9, 2007 | Newsmax

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Is there any method to bin Laden’s madness?

After years of not being seen in public, he is apparently surfacing on the eve of the 6th anniversary of his Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Intelligence agencies have stated that Islamic terrorists like to mark anniversaries with attacks. As religious fundamentalists, they may even be motivated by Islam’s interest in numbers or numerology.

While the number 6 has little religious significance for Islamics, this Sept. 11 will mark an important number: 72.

That’s 72 months since the 9/11 strikes of 2001.

Could there be significance in that number?

We did some research on Islamic numerology and found that, indeed, 72 is a very significant number in Muslim culture:

• The Prophet Muhammad predicted that after his death, Islam would divide into 72 factions.
• According to the Koran, Allah has 72 angels guarding his throne.
• The warriors of Islam are rewarded with 72 “perpetual virgins” in paradise.
• At the important battle of Karbala in the year 680, tradition holds that there were 72 martyr-heroes fighting in the name of Husayn ibn Ali, Muhammad’s grandson, against a much larger force under the Umayyad caliph.

Could it be that al-Qaida has been preparing a major operation to commemorate the 72-month anniversary of 9/11?

Curiously, the number 72 figures prominently elsewhere. The Shemhamphorasch — which has many alternate spellings — is an epithet for a 72-letter name of God derived by medieval kabbalists from the Book of Exodus, by reading the letters of three verses in a specific order.

Another number significant to Muslims is “7.” The Koran contains approximately 25 references to seven, including the seven heavens and the seven periods of creation. The number is thought to be directly linked to the power of the divine, and figures into Islamic art, folklore, literature and rituals.

The date of the bombings in the London transit system was July 7, 2005 — or 7/7.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Could you be so kind as to change all that gobbledegook in the title to ‘72’? Thanks.

[johniegrad]

Why does it turn out that way?

[Maceman]

[sionnsar]

The Prophet Muhammad predicted that after his death, Islam would divide into 72 factions.

Okay, we got 2. (Are there sub-divisions I don't know about?)

[Anti-Bubba182]

I remember a speech when Louis Farrakhan was talking numerology in a stream of purist bulls@!t.

"..October 17, 19 95

FARRAKHAN: . . There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves.

In the background is the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorial, each one of these monuments is 19 feet high.

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president. Thomas Jefferson, the third president, and 16 and three make 19 again. What is so deep about this number 19 ? Why are we standing on the Capitol steps today? That number 19 -- when you have a nine you have a womb that is pregnant. And when you have a one standing by the nine, it means that there's something secret that has to be unfolded. . . . .."

[sionnsar]

According to the Koran, Allah has 72 angels guarding his throne.

That powerful, huh?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Well, it originally was the number 72 put inside fancy single quotes. For some reason, FR doesn’t recognize those. Hence, it puts out the corresponding HTML gobbledegook instead.

A hearty thank you to the Admin Moderator for cleaning that up.

[sionnsar]

The date of the bombings in the London transit system was July 7, 2005 — or 7/7.

Gee, if they'd held off almost 6 more years they could have been hijacking 777s on 7/7/7.

[PeteB570]

It’s only 72 if you use the infidel’s western calendar.

Those who bow to the moon god use a different counting system.

I think they may like the date but not the 72 connection.

[saganite]

Thought I saw a report on FR this morning that discredited the new Bin Laden tape?

[SaxxonWoods]

Thanks for the post TSR, and thanks for your participation in the Freeps at Walter Reed. I never tire of reading the after-action reports.

[eyedigress]

The 72 names of God in the Kabbalistic tradition.

There are 72 skulls on the necklace of Kali, Hindu Goddess of Destruction

In Egyptian mythology: The 72 Assassins of the dark god Set clamped the lid shut on the coffin in which Osiris was trapped- then murdered.

[Cvengr]

The number 19 thing is what used to be the lunatic fringe ticket. For example, the London bombings on 7/7/05 were more associated with 7+7+5=19, instead of 7/7/2+0+0+5=7. Go figure.

[Right Wing Assault]

Is this why his lips and body don’t move during 72% of his recent video “speech”?

[Right Wing Assault]

Holy crap! I just looked at my onscreen Weatherbug thermometer and it is 72 degrees here! For real. Allah is sending messages.

[bannie]

It's all secret code to the sleeper cells.

They dug up his body to drag him around a'la "Bob."

[Anti-Bubba182]

It becomes significant if a crazy acts on it. I don’t think they believe it themselves for the most part.

[harwood]

My 2 cents:

He raises his hand as he says "the murderers will be killed"; this action is interpreted as a signal to implement a plot.

The black beard: September 11 is referred to as "Black Tuesday" on the jihadi forums.

The call to convert: We all know that this precedes an attack. I hate to say it, but heads up for another 9/11.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

If Allah is all powerful and he’s in a utopian paradise, why does he need guards? This is just one more reason why islam is a load of crap.