“a “Mahdi” or a Dajjal (still researching what that is and how it fits into Islamic worldwide domination prophecies)”
A good rule of thumb is that the Mahdi and Dajjal correspond roughly to the Beast and the False Prophet characters in the Book of Revelations, except that Muslims make them out to be the heroes instead of the villains.
Thanks! That makes sense, and certainly lines up with Revelation, doesn't it?
Didn’t that guy in Sudan try that? Didn’t he have the Black Flag of the Mahdi? He beat the Anglo-Egyptian forces? His army of “Fuzzy-Wussies” armed with swords and shield beat the British Square? He took over Sudan, built a new capital then died—his general took over and ran the place—fueled the state with slave markets. He ran things for a dozen years until Lord Kitchener came with an army with machine guns and defeated his native army—to rule an unhappy Sudan who were always revolting, even during WW I. England was glad to be rid of the place. Lord K. was a hero in England and lead the forces in WW I until Mata Hari did him in. She seduced an English officer, who told her of Lord K. trip to France on a cruiser. She told the huns, that had a U-boat waiting for his ship. Sadly, Lord K. didn’t know how to swim.
I would expect muslims to consider Satan the hero.