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Why are the US and Israel framing the ongoing conflict as a religious war? {Al Jazeera taqqiyah alert}
Al Jazeera ^ | 4th March 2026 | Sarah Shamim

Posted on 03/04/2026 7:52:11 AM PST by Cronos

US troops reportedly told the war in Iran is intended to bring about biblical end times, Armageddon.

As conflict in the Middle East enters its fifth day on Wednesday, American and Israeli officials are pushing rhetoric suggesting that the campaign against Iran is a religious war.

On Tuesday, Muslim civil rights organisation, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), condemned the Pentagon’s use of this rhetoric, deeming it “dangerous” and “anti-Muslim”.

...US watchdog Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) said it has received emailed complaints that US service members were told the war with Iran is meant to “cause Armageddon”, or the biblical “end times”.

An unnamed noncommissioned officer wrote in an email to MRFF that a commander had urged officers “to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ”.

The officer claimed the commander had told the unit that Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”.

Israeli and US leaders have also resorted to religious rhetoric in public.

(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bs; cronos; epicfury; gaslighting; iranwar; jerker; lurker
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To: Cronos

They aren’t. As usual Al Jezera is simply lying.


21 posted on 03/04/2026 9:14:03 AM PST by MNJohnnie
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To: fruser1

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is a communist group of scumbags headed by the Chief scumbag, Mikey Weinstein.


22 posted on 03/04/2026 9:18:54 AM PST by ohioman
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To: TheThirdRuffian
Sounds like an attempt to create a narrative that doesn’t exist.

Yep! But the Democrats will be saying it before the end of the day.

23 posted on 03/04/2026 9:20:39 AM PST by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Lurker

Your comments here, as is your habit, are entirely idiotic without the slightest hint of a rational adult thought


24 posted on 03/04/2026 9:21:40 AM PST by MNJohnnie
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To: Liz

you are always quick with the copy and pasted anti-Semitic blather about how the Jews control the world. Dr. goebbels would be proud of you.


25 posted on 03/04/2026 9:21:51 AM PST by ohioman
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To: Cronos

😂 US troops reportedly told the war in Iran is intended to bring about biblical end times, Armageddon.

Never happened.
In some people’s mind I’m sure they believe it

“Never go full retard.


26 posted on 03/04/2026 9:22:35 AM PST by MotorCityBuck (Keep the Change You Filthy Animal !)
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To: Cronos

Manipulating God??? LOLOL, ‘evangelicals’.


27 posted on 03/04/2026 9:25:30 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: MNJohnnie

Please enlighten me as to my intellectual shortcomings.

Dip****.

L


28 posted on 03/04/2026 10:01:45 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Cronos

“reportedly told”

Well it must be true if it is coming from the muslim brotherhood’s ‘Pravda.’


29 posted on 03/04/2026 10:05:36 AM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: Cronos

Religious War works for me, just take a look at France, UK and Germany there’s more.


30 posted on 03/04/2026 10:32:26 AM PST by Rappini ("In hoc Signo Vinces" In this sign, you shall conquer.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian
"Sounds like an attempt to create a narrative that doesn’t exist."

But should it not exist? The conflict is a really a battle of civilizations and their religious foundations. Simple good versus evil.

31 posted on 03/04/2026 10:32:33 AM PST by buckalfa (More chaos and disruption please.)
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To: Cronos

This article has another source:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-03-04/us-military-leaders-tell-troops-trump-waging-iran-war-bring-forth-second-coming


32 posted on 03/04/2026 10:41:09 AM PST by cgbg (The definition of outstanding propaganda is when almost everybody believes the same lies.)
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To: Lurker

Because it is a religious war.
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Note the evolution in thinking how many are now just getting around to understand the core reason for this latest crusade against Islam. Also note how the Islamic shouters of “death to Israel and the U.S.” are suddenly now claiming that ideology has nothing to do with any of this. Islamist are just like the two faced hypocritical Communist we have to deal with this country. They criticize their opponents for doing what they have always done.


33 posted on 03/04/2026 10:41:42 AM PST by iontheball (, )
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To: ohioman

Get off this site, you America hater.


34 posted on 03/04/2026 10:44:57 AM PST by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slaveryen .)
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To: Cronos

we arent blowing them up because they are muslim, we are blowing them up because they are gigantic murderous assholes


35 posted on 03/04/2026 11:58:40 AM PST by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: Cronos

There is more than one religious war involved here.

It’s not just the Islamists trying to be the slave holders of the entire rest of the world, as their theocracy expects and demands, because under the covers the Suni and the Shiites are still contesting each other for ultimate control.


36 posted on 03/04/2026 1:27:13 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-A)
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To: Cronos

seems to me AL J is trying to stir up a narrative of it being a religious war because to them most wars are.


37 posted on 03/04/2026 2:13:07 PM PST by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like they asked Sgnt Brody from “Homeland”


38 posted on 03/04/2026 2:51:44 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Cronos

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39 posted on 03/04/2026 8:30:50 PM PST by sauropod
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To: All

Hezbollah leader vows to fight on as Israel expands operations in Lebanon

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260305-hezbollah-leader-vows-to-fight-on-as-israel-expands-operations-in-lebanon


40 posted on 03/05/2026 3:37:45 AM PST by Texan4Life
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