Posted on 07/28/2006 6:16:36 AM PDT by Dark Skies
The world is presently at its most wicked. It is beyond human help. It requires only a nudge to implode and prepare for the divine ruler, the Saheb-ul-Zaman (the Mahdi, the Lord of the Age) to come and set it aright. It is the sacred duty and privilege of every Muslim to do all he can to hasten the death of the old world and the birth of the global Islamic Ummah. Thus goes the thinking of Iran’s ruling mullahs and their hand-picked president Mahmood Ahmadinejad.
It seems like the old millennialism thinking, a belief held, in one version or another by several major religions. Indeed it is, with one terribly alarming difference. This time around, a group of believers with tremendous resources is intent upon forcing the issue, making the conditions so dire that the reluctant Saheb-ul-Zaman is left no choice but to appear and assume his universal reign.
The belief in supernatural intervention to set the world aright is scriptural to major religions, including Islam. The Jews have been earnestly supplicating the Lord for the Messiah to come; the Christians are impatiently awaiting the second coming of Christ; and, the Zoroastrians are convinced that Saoshayant is the one who shall come, defeat the trouble-making Ahriman—Satan—and make the creatures again pure.
Up to this point millennialism was a belief and a hope. No one ever aspired to or had the means of making the anticipated events come about. The matter was in the hands of God. The Muslims’ perennial prayer recited every day, posted in mosques and even on bumpers of vehicles has been, “O, Saheb-ul-Zaman, hasten your coming.” The prayer for the advent, thus far, has been limited to passive supplications of the faithful.
It is a well-established fact that beliefs are a potent impetus to action. If you believe your home is about to be burglarized, you secure the house and take other precautions. If you, under the influence of drugs, believe that a bug is burrowing into your skin, you may take a knife to your own body and try to dig the imaginary bug out.
Hence, it is shortsighted to dismiss the mullahs as a bunch of lunatics who are out of touch with reality and that they have no intention of doing catastrophic mischief to compel the Mahdi’s coming. Maybe some arming of the Iraqi Shiites, a little support for Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine—but no, no major idiocy. After all, they are rational people and in touch with reality. Any large scale troublemaking spells their doom as well. Thus goes the rationalization—the greatest risky tranquilizer of the mind.
Rationalization, compounded by complacency and denial, can be deadly, particularly when the adversaries have different realities. To the fanatic mullahs ruling Iran Sahaeb-ul-Zaman is an absolute reality and his promised advent is irrevocably ordained. This is their reality and their belief and they have every intention of leading their life according to them.
It is foolish for the non-Muslims to dismiss the mullahs and the Bin Ladens as a bunch of fringe lunatics who are going to go away simply by wishing it. The Islamist reality is that the non-Muslims are the ones who deserve to be done away with; they are the ones who have refused to submit to the summons of Allah for much too long; and, it is time for the faithful to get rid of them. This makes for a lopsided contest. The non-Muslims are passively wishing that the nightmarish surge of Islamism is only a temporary fringe phenomenon doomed to die on its own, while the other side is marshalling its huge destructive power to accomplish its aim by eradicating the non-Muslims.
The cabal of fanatical mullahs ruling Iran has lost its patience, not only with the unbelievers, but also with the Mahdi as well. They aim to force his arrival. The mullahs believe they have the means to make it impossible for the Mahdi to tarry any longer by causing unprecedented death and destruction—conditions deemed essential for his coming. The world must hit the very bottom, before the Savior of the world comes to the rescue, so they firmly believe.
The question is: What does prudence demand? Clearly wishing the problem to go away is not a very effective solution in the same way that wishing for the Saheb-ul-Zaman to come has not been. Reasoning and negotiating with the mullahs and their ilk hold very little, if any, lasting promise. There are always the easy ways of denial and appeasement. We are very good at both practices. No, the Muslims have been around for ages. They make some troubles from time to time. But they really are not all that bad and dangerous. We’ll get along. If we have too, we’ll even let them live by the Sharia—their stone-age laws— in our midst. We’ll be reasonable and they will come around. We’ll just have to get along. So goes the line.
One problem: The other side doesn’t think this way. The Islamofascists don’t believe in the notion of “Live and let live.” They believe that the earth is Allah’s and it has been sullied by the heathens, the unbelievers and the kafir for far too long. Now that they have the means, they aim to make the world to their design and bring about the final solution—a nasty reminder of not too long ago Nazism.
Is this alarmist, or even hatemongering? You don’t believe Muslims can be that intolerant and hostile toward non-Muslims and that they’ll never go to the extremes? You know Muslims personally in your neighborhood or your work place and they are nice people? The nice Muslims you personally know are presently small minorities in alien lands. They have to be nice, and they may indeed be nice. Yet, when the main force of Islamofascism surges forward, these nice folks will either have to join it or be swept aside like the rest of the resisters.
The concern is not with individual Muslims who live as solid citizens in democratic societies. They may have developed a taste for the freedom democracy bestows or have simply learned to tolerate it. Our concern is with the gathering Islamofascist storm from the heart of Islamdom. To truly appreciate Islam, you must experience firsthand Islam in power. Take a quick trip to the lands of the Muslims and find out for yourself how horribly they treat the non-Muslims, even the, “People of the book,” Jews and Christians. Try to have a Bible study group or build a church in Saudi Arabia and discover the benevolence of Islamic rule.
The world is a laboratory where the experiment with Islam shows irrefutable results. The Islamic Republic of Iran represents the cutting edge for the newly petrodollar-invigorated Islam. It is determined to complete its task of ending the world of “Dar-ul-Harb”—the non-Muslim world to be warred upon—and establishing the “Dar-ul-Solh,” or “Dar-ul-Salam”—the Muslim world of the Ummah under the rule of the Mahdi. If achieving this aim hinges on the conflagration of the Third World War, the mullahs are happy to make it happen.
Amil Imani is an Iranian born American citizen and pro-democracy activist who resides in the United States of America.
But that's about the end of it: Islamic "Science", "Economics" and "Government" don't represent realistic competitors to the "Western" counterparts, and the rise of radical Islam is largely a reaction to the fact that (as in Iran at the moment) the appeal of Western Consumer culture to the young is an acid that constantly eats away at attempts to reimpose the values of 8th century tribal culture on populations with satellite dishes importing subversive images of "Western" life 24x7.
So it appears to me that Islamic Theocracy is just the latest in a string of attempts such as "Arab Socialism" to come to terms with "modernity".
And that for the next twenty years or so - until oil revenues start to level out and them decline, and such places as Iran and Saudi Arabia have to start looking to building economies and cultures based on something other than primary resource extraction - the entire area is going to be divided between poor countries struggling to reconcile 8t century Islam with 21st century requirements, and petroleum rich countries which may have a brief respite from having to do the same.
BINGO!!!
Ping!
Remember when the liberals were terrified that Ronald Reagan perhaps looked forward to Armageddon and may have wanted to do something to hasten it along?
Well, we all know now that was nonsense. We even knew it then, but that didn't stop a lot of crazy speculation.
Where are their voices now that it appears some madmen in Iran really do want to bring about the end of the world?
bttt
The cabal of fanatical mullahs ruling Iran has lost its patience, not only with the unbelievers, but also with the Mahdi as well. They aim to force his arrival. This is the truth regarding Islam ... and it proves this is a religion fathered by a demon. To believe they (the Mullahs) can force the hand of the one who created the universe is to reduce God to a servant of the more powerful Mullahs. A demon would relish such irrational thinking, but God, the true God of Creation, is not so impotent nor does He desire such foolishness from believers. Sadly, Mulims are so brainwashed through rote worship, they will be unable to see this truth and reject this evil which is overpowering them through fostering their belief that they can make God serve their rewards based upon their 'righteous' behaviors in rote worship. Truly, we battle principalities and powers not of this world!
the Zoroastrians are convinced that Saoshayant is the one who shall come, defeat the trouble-making Ahriman—Satan—and make the creatures again pure.
I did not know that. 8-)
Yup. I remember it well. I hope the liberal whiners are happy now. But then I guess they've "moved on."
They will wake up as the sword falls to chop off their sniveling heads. Sadly, they will have served up our heads and the heads of millions of non-violent Muslims to reach that final moment. The democrat party has proven they will sacrifice millions in their empowerment schemes (abortion), so don't expect them to resist something they foolishly see as a means to their power being reinstated in defeating the current administration and Congress. The democrats are willing allies to this demonic movement, at this early juncture, thus they are a formidalbe obstacle to awakening the American people to the truth of this menace.
ping
The enemy within.
I still hold the faintest glimmers of hope that we can avoid an all out war against islam. I shudder to think what it would take for a nation first settled to ensure religious freedom to make war on a religion. I further shudder to think what it would do to such a nation.
I declare, Islamofascism must be destroyed!
the thinking of Iran’s ruling mullahs and their hand-picked president Mahmood Ahmadinejad.Like Highlander -- There Can Be Only One. This "president" of Iran knows his head will roll when he fails (and he will fail). If he wants to continue in the job (IOW, continue to fail, continue to lead Iran to destruction) he'll have to eliminate or be eliminated.
Interesting point.
Yet, it makes perfect sense that an entity attacking such freedom would very likely be itself a religion (in this case a particularly virulent and violent one).
They're the voices that are saying that we should try to understand why the Islamonazis are so mad at us. Hopefully they'll be the first ones to go when the big flash goes off.
Amazing and prescient piece. Thank you, Amil.
I don't give a flying pig's patoot why the slamizazes are mad at us. I just want them defeated the way we defeated the Nazis and militaristic Japanese sixty years ago.
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