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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This will be horrible, horrific even..
The CUBS are on a roll, winning the last 7 of 10 games, they're making a late year charge to get to the wild card...and now, this?? Cubs could be within 1.5 games of the wild card and then perhaps the DIVISION and durn it all, the world is coming to an end.
The CURSE continues...
PS: Bring it ON!! DinneyJad boy!
Funny. Reminds me of a few years back when my husband's company was in trouble and we were on pins and needles wondering if we were going to do a crash and burn. I told my husband I was going to buy some new clothes. He wanted to know why and I said something like this, "Well baby, if this ship is goin' down, I might as well look like a million bucks as I sink."
should I get my taxes done? I filed an extension
The evening of 8/21 certainly calls for a live thread. I don't expect anything catastrophic to happen, but it seems like something has to happen, or Ahmadinejad will look foolish to his followers. So I'm expecting something to happen somewhere.
A friend of mine starts college on August 21. She laughed when I told her the world was ending the next day.
It's the bomb that they intend to use to kick off the festivities. A fiery light in the sky over Jerusalem, or something like that. Of course that light might be an Israeli Arrow taking out that Iranian missile with the North Korean payload.
I'm telling you, the Cubs will never beat my Padres in the playoffs. The Cubs are jinxed and the Padres have their number permanently. The only hope for the Cubs is ineptitude thorughout the NL and then great pitching in the World Series. Maybe someday. Heck...the Red Sox finally won it after surviving the Billy Buckner bad bounce.
Well she should tune in to our live thread on 8/21. Something surprising has to happen somewhere or the Iranian president will look foolish to his followers, and he doesn't want that to happen. I think 8/21 will be an interesting evening.
See, TBN launched (with the help of Benny Hinn) "The Healing Channel", which is all in Arabic and aimed straight at the Muslims.
Now, if a Muslim got curious after watching "healing Channel" and decided to channel surf (with their satellite dish) over to the TBN main channel (possible to do in the ME), and suddenly saw Hal Lindsay saying how BAD the Muslims are...now you see why Dr. Crouch did what he did.
I'm not saying Crouch was right. Hal's tellin' it like it is.
Is there really all that much difference?
The Prophet (pbuh) further foretold events that would occur before Armageddon, including the return to earth of the Messiah (the prophet Isa, known to Christians as Jesus), who would pray behind the Mahdi or “the Guided One”. The prophet Isa would then destroy the unbelieving armies of Gog and Magog (thought to represent two different European races), before restoring peace and brotherhood to the planet.
The signs
But before this defining battle can take place, Moslems are told to watch for certain signs and to ready themselves.
Minor signs include the disappearance of knowledge and the appearance of ignorance; the consumption of intoxicants will be widespread; women will outnumber men; the nations of the earth will gather against the Moslems like hungry people going to sit down to a table full of food; rain will be acidic or burning; great distances will be traversed in short spans of time; leaders of people will be oppressors; men will begin to look like women and women will look like men; the Jews will return to live in Bilad Canaan (Palestine); people will compete with each other to build taller buildings; earthquakes will increase and smog will hang over cities.
One sign, which will, no doubt, resonate during these times is this: The people of Sham will receive no food and no money due to oppression by the Romans (Europeans/Westerners).
http://www.alshindagah.com/sepoct2003/extremist.html
Auf bin Malik also consulted about Qiyamah with Rasulullah, who said: "Count six things before the advent of Qiyamah: (1) my death; (2) the conquest of Jerusalem; (3) mass deaths among you people, just as when sheep die in large numbers during an epidemic; (4) abundance of wealth to such an extent that if a person were to be given a hundred dinars he will still not be satisfied; (5) general anarchy and bloodshed, that no Arab household will be spared from it; (6) then a life of peace as a result of a peace agreement between you and the Banil Asfaar [Romans, Christians] which they will break and attack you with a force consisting of eighty flags and under each flag will be an army of 12,000 men."
http://www.rexresearch.com/prophist/phf5mos.htm
In Chapter "Fitnah" of Mishkah al Masabih, the Prophet Mohammed (pboh) says: "The last hour will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, so that Jews will hide behind stones and trees and the stone and the tree will say, "O Muslim, O servant of God! There is a Jew behind me; come and kill him." The only exception will be the box thorn; for it is one of the trees of the Jews."
What else would the Pajama Militia wear?
I know it was a big deal with feathers flying every place...LOL...
Let's keep a sense of proportion here. The fallout from whatever little pipsqueak bomb Abadabado might cobble together, plus the few bombs it would take to utterly destroy Iran and Syria as functioning countries, would not kill just about everyone in the world. In fact even a full scale exchange between the US and the Soviet Union back in Ronald Reagan's day would not have done that.
Most of it is short lived, and the vast majority of it falls out near the explosions.
Nope, he got banned.
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