Paving the Way for the "Mahdi"

Asharq Alawsat ^ | January 29, 2006 | Mshari Al-Zaydi

[VOA]

well done...beat me to it by 1:06, and with a better historical discussion

[Future Snake Eater]

Nah, he looks more like this:

[GovernmentShrinker]

American forces . . . came . . . to prevent and confront the emergence of the awaited Mahdi who will appear in Iraq

Nice to know that their Mahdi is enough of a pushover that the U.S. military can prevent his emergence.

[Cindy]

http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/archives/000164.html
January 19, 2006
"The Mahdi in an ill-fitting overcoat"

http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/omedia/19jan06-mahdi_needs_a_new_tailor.jpg

[Shermy]

I figured Sadr was just a thug riding on the coattails of his esteemed father.

Now I know he's a psycho. too.

[Fred Hayek]

Right now
I am an anti-christ,
And I am an anarchist.
Don’t know what I want, but I know how to get it,
I want to destroy, possibly?

Cause I want to be anarchy. no dog’s body.

Anarchy for the u.k.
It’s coming sometime it maybe.
I give a wrong time, stop a traffic light.
Your future dream is a shopping spree.

Cause I want to be anarchy, in the city.

Of many ways to get what you want
I use the best, I use the rest.
I use the enemy,
I use anarchy.

Cause I want to be anarchy, it’s the only way to be.

Is this the m.p.l.a.?
Is this the u.d.a.?
Is this the i.r.a.?
I thought it was the u.k., or just another country
And other ####-like tendencies.
Cause I want to be anarchy, cause I want to be anarchy,
You know what I mean?

Cause I want to be an anarchist, again I’m p!ssed, destroy!

[adam_az]

Sheer Mahd-ness.

[Fred Hayek]

BTW, Anarchy in the UK by the Sex Pistols.

[Thunder90]

Was he hoping that the Mahdi was a reformed Saddam? No wonder why the Iranians did not want us to bomb Iraq.

[Thunder90]

We got rid of a potential Mahdi/Third Antichrist... Saddam. Thank god for Israel bombing Osiraq and the First Gulf war. Things would be much different if these events did not happen, and there would be a nuclear armed Hussein running the Middle east.

[rjp2005]

YEAH!!! G-DUB BABY!

[Dajjal]

there are many who believe that the Mahdi is on the verge of appearing

As I have been saying quite frequently now, for the last few DECADES the Muslim people have been flooded with propaganda that we are living in the End Times, therefore 1) the Mahdi will soon appear who 2) is predestined to destroy the greatest evil ever to scourge the earth, the Dajjal, 3) whom the imams identify one way or another as Western Civilization and its participants 4) in order to establish a world-wide Islamic state governed by shari'a law.

If you hear the word "Mahdi" don't think "charismatic Muslim leader" -- think "man their scripture says is predestined to kill all the infidels."

So, of course they want their Mahdi to have a nuclear arsenal at his disposal.

The notion of "Mahdism" symbolically or literally, expresses the human aspiration for justice.

I disagree. It's less the Muslim peoples' collective aspiration for "justice" than the desire of the extreme jihadists to wipe every non-Muslim off the face of the earth.

many Sunnis nowadays believe that the various Bin Laden attacks around the world are in preparation for the coming of the Mahdi.... could we really prevent this story from its disastrous conclusion

Well, of course they would see OBL as doing preparatory work for the Mahdi's army, if they don't think OBL is himself the Mahdi.

Is there any way to prevent a disastrous conclusion? Likely not. Many Muslims believe that the world is going to end in 2076. So they think that the events occurring today are just the beginning of the Mahdi's jihad to conquer the world.

See here for more info on Muslim End-Time beliefs.

[TC Rider]

great minds, yada yada

[Dajjal]

I figured Sadr was just a thug riding on the coattails of his esteemed father.
Now I know he's a psycho. too.

Sadr and Ahmadinejad are not "psychos." They are just good Muslims who have been repeating and acting upon the standard Muslim "Signs of Qiyamah (End Times)" that the imams have been pushing for many years now.

Neither is saying he himself is the Mahdi, both are, as the author says, "paving the way."

As I keep urging people, you should do a web search for the words Mahdi Mehdi / Dajjal Dajjaal / Qiyama Qiyamah Qiyamat and look at the tones of websites out there in English -- and there's lots more in Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Indonesian.

Sadr called his "insurgent" group "The Mahdi's Army." What we need to take from that is that it means we are the Dajjal. The Dajjal in guaranteed 100% to be killed in the prophecies of the Hadith. So they are not fighting hoping they can defeat us -- they are fighting under the assumption that Allah has told them they will be victorious.

If there are the "moderate" Muslim Bush talks about, they need to begin an active counter-propoganda campaign that these ARE NOT the Last Days and that the US and our Allies ARE NOT the Dajjal.

[grey_whiskers]

Neither is saying he himself is the Mahdi, both are, as the author says, "paving the way."

They could be more correct than they realize.

Cause if they get too cutesy with nukes then the US is going to turn Iran into a (radioactive) parking lot!

Full Disclosure: We'd bomb them back into the stone age...but they're already there.

[Antioch]

After the recent Iranian election, former president Mohammad Khatami lashed out in a post-election sermon at the "powerful organization" behind the "shallow-thinking traditionalists with their Stone-Age backwardness" currently running the country. He was referring to the anti-Sunni semi-clandestine group in Iran called the Hojjatieh Society.

The group flourished during the 1979 revolution that ousted the Shah and installed an Islamic government in his place, and was later banned in 1983 by Ayatollah Khomeini. Khomeini objected to the Hojjatieh's rejection of his doctrine of the "Guardianship of the Jurist" upon which the Iranian constitution os based. This doctrine stipulates that during the absence of the infallible imam (Mahdi), the guardianship and leadership of the nation is the responsibility of a "just and pious jurist." (i.e. Khomeini or his relatives) Hojjatieh members reject this and believe that true Islamic government must await the return of the Mahdi, who is currently in occultation. Only then, they argue, can a genuine Islamic republic be established.

Ahmadinejad is said to have sympathies with the Hojjatieh, if he is not a member outright. Of the 21 new ministers in Ahmadinejad's cabinet, three are said to have Hojjatieh backgrounds, including Intelligence chief Hojatoleslam Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehyi. The hardline minister of the interior, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, is another Haqqani alumnus with suspected Hojjatieh sympathies.

This new end-times gang controlling the levers of power in a nation on the brink of nuclear status is set to pave the way for the appearance of the Mahdi. So, get ready everybody for a return to the 10th century, Islam style. Since they believe that the 12th Imam's return will be hastened by the creation of chaos on earth. Expect more death, suicide bombings, terrorist attacks, or regional warfare. Islam being the Christian heresy that it is, has its own perverted version of Revelation, but of course, to get to their Messianic era they must destroy the world themselves.

[wmileo]

"well done...beat me to it by 1:06, and with a better historical discussion"

Thank you.

FYI. There is a Movie w/ Lawrence Oliver and Charlton Heston Titled "Khartoum" from 1966. One of the best Historical Dramas ever made. Great Acting from the entire cast. Makes Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and George Clooney look ridiculous(as they should).

[VOA]

Psst, check post 19...it's a link to that classic film
I'm suprised that Hollywood actually allowed it to get onto DVD,
as it's a clear cautionary tale for our era.

[wmileo]

"I'm surprised that Hollywood actually allowed it to get onto DVD, as it's a clear cautionary tale for our era."

They probably don't know about it since it is over 40 years old. These Hollywood Idiots are so rapped up in there own s**t, they don't realize what is going on in the real world. I have the DVD by the way.