Posted on 08/09/2006 9:02:18 AM PDT by presidio9
Better cancel those holidays. We now have a date for Armageddon, and it's a week on Tuesday - August 22.
This information comes from no lesser source than the Wall Street Journal, where Bernard Lewis, President Bush's favourite historian, provides the details.
"In Islam, as in Judaism and Christianity," the professor writes, "there are certain beliefs concerning the cosmic struggle at the end of time - Gog and Magog, anti-Christ, Armageddon, and for Shiite Muslims, the long-awaited return of the Hidden Imam, ending in the final victory of the forces of good over evil, however these may be defined.
"Mr Ahmadinejad [the Iranian president] and his followers clearly believe that this time is now, and that the terminal struggle has already begun and is indeed well advanced. It may even have a date, indicated by several references by the Iranian president to giving his final answer to the US about nuclear development by August 22. This was at first reported as 'by the end of August', but Mr Ahmadinejad's statement was more precise."
Lewis continues: "What is the significance of August 22? This year, August 22 corresponds, in the Islamic calendar, to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to 'the farthest mosque', usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back (cf, Koran XVII.1). This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and, if necessary, of the world."
This sort of quasi-religious scaremongering always finds a receptive audience in the United States, especially among Christians of the jihadist
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ping to me for later
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1680521/posts?page=252#252
LOL! I love it, hope you don't mind if I add it to my vocabulary! My husband (a Brit) will certainly get a kick out of it.
FWIW, that seems to be my raison d'etre on FR.
WORLD TO END ON THE 22nd! WOMEN, CHILDREN, MINORITIES AND THE POOR HARDEST HIT!....... AND IT'S GEORGE BUSH'S FAULT!......
That's where I stop--everyone else are puppets themselves (on that side of the conflict).
Hence my question--there is only one puppet master.
It's starting to sound like we're going to need more than a bushel of crabs. My SIL and I can do tons of damage by ourselves.
Do I stillhave to get her a gift and flowers?
Hmmmmmm.
Decisions, decisions ...
{Writing "Doomsday - Buy Beer" on the August 22 slot on the calendar...}
You have those in the wrong order. ;)
Will FEMA cover any damages?
I've been hearing food things about the crabs this year. We live a few hours from the shore, just far enough that we can get them but they cost way too much. So I'm waiting a trip near the shore.
I'm with ya on the Old Bay in the cuts. Two years ago I nailed myself so bad I actually had to stop and take care of it.
Ditto-Baseball sucks !
LOL
Better move that "buy beer" to August 21, just to make sure. Wouldn't want to be caught in the endtime without a brewski, would you?
Count me in. I'll find something to bring to the thread.
Lewis coined it? Umm, I'm thinking Sammy Huntington did that. But then maybe I'm wrong.
LOL! He's has a long wait - as in 'eternity'.
Doesn't work well that way. Actually, doesn't work at all that way.
Thanks, Quix. I hadn't thought of it that way.
Oh, Lord. My spirit is willing; my flesh weak
Me in a nutshell.
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