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To: Hank Rearden
When's the world finally going to tell the stupid Moos to just blow it out their a$$?

When we don't need their oil. The higher the price of crude the greater the arrogance of Muslims. Which is a loser religion but has lots of oil. Enough to buy and make nukes in Iran. I don't trust deranged religious fanatics with nuclear weapons

Iran's Messianic Menace
FrontPage Magazine ^ | 10 January 2006 | Daniel Pipes
Posted on 01/10/2006 7:48:26 AM EST by unionblue83
Thanks to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, a new word has entered the political vocabulary: mahdaviat.
Not surprisingly, it’s a technical religious term. Mahdaviat derives from mahdi, Arabic for “rightly-guided one,” a major figure in Islamic eschatology. He is, explains the Encyclopaedia of Islam, “the restorer of religion and justice who will rule before the end of the world.” The concept originated in the earliest years of Islam and, over time, became particularly identified with the Shi‘ite branch. Whereas “it never became an essential part of Sunni religious doctrine,” continues the encyclopedia, “Belief in the coming of the Mahdi of the Family of the Prophet became a central aspect of the faith in radical Shi‘ism,” where it is also known as the return of the Twelfth Imam.

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59 posted on 01/10/2006 8:47:07 AM PST by dennisw ("What one man can do another can do" - The Edge)
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To: dennisw
When we don't need their oil. The higher the price of crude the greater the arrogance of Muslims.

When the Moos aren't selling oil, what have they got? Sand? They'll starve or fight themselves to death, which is fine.

And just when do we start taking oil as war reparations from Iraq? Are we supposed to go around freeing Moo idiots for free forever?

60 posted on 01/10/2006 8:53:04 AM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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