[Shermy]

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[SlowBoat407]

Yeeeeee- Mahdi!!

[robowombat]

What can one say of a religion that appears to have incorporated their own version of the 'Turner Diaries' into their articles of faith?

[Jack Hammer]

Crack a history book - any history book - and it's immediately clear there has never been a shortage of nut cases. The Mahdi will descend from a UFO in purple silks and a turban, electric guitar in hand, crooning in Bantu, and lead millions in tinfoil hats to regiments of virgins in veils. Next.

[359Henrie]

I'm the mahdi, Now you must give me all your goats or die!

[muawiyah]

The Mahdi's picture:

http://photo.itc.nps.gov/storage/images/officials/Officials-ImageF.00001.jpeg

[Wiseghy]

I calmly assert that I am the Easter Bunny.

I will appear to my people in April.

[najida]

Golly,

Sounds like some folks I know.

[cake_crumb]

"On a more serious note, there are many who believe that the Mahdi is on the verge of appearing, each one with his own vision of the form and characteristics attributed to the Mahdi, based on his or her traditional vision of what he will look like and what he will do. Thus, the Mahdi of the Shia differs from that of the Sunnis who in turn, is different from that of other Islamic sects and sub-sects."

"False Prophet" is what springs to mind. This is what you get when both Islamists AND the morally bereft left wish for Armageddon NOW. Both sides think that when Christianity is destroyed and the world made over, things will be a lot easier....though they believe for very different reasons. Muslims want the resurrection of the Caliphate, while the left just wants power. Guess which one will be left if it comes to that?

[markman46]

sounds like someone has been reading the DUNE books again

[Betis70]

Does he look like this?

[TC Rider]

Muaddib?

[VOA]

For The Forum...
An earlier story about The Mahdi...it's good but could do with a remake.
But don't expect today's Hollywood to do it, without revisionism:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060588/

[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

[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.

[Thunder90]

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

[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.

[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.