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
(Excerpt) Read more at commentisfree.guardian.co.uk ...
Your night to do the clean up, huh?
Finally!
Is that what you call correcting your post?
My dear, you have betrayed your real reason for posting to me.
For if you were the least bit interested in "correcting" a post, you would have posted to presidio9, too, as that's where the statement I was agreeing to came from, remember?
Of course he is. Rush puts down FR on the air, but he logs in every day and gets most of the material for his show from here. Saves him the cost of having to hire his own researchers.
But try as I might, I don't see a post from YOU demanding that presidio9 retract.
Not quite as slick as you think you appear.
No, I'm here to read articles. I post them. I respond to them. Once in a while, if some uninformed poster asserts something idiotic about Rush, I post the facts. If I feel like it. I felt like it.
WEll, since you're in "correction" mode, I assume you just missed presidio's, right? Or else, of course, you'd have "corrected" that one, too. Or maybe it's just mine that bug you.
Awwwwwww . . . lighten up.
Isn't this a jokes only thread?
Can't we all just get along?
Yep.
That's what I figured.
So you've shown that you're a hypocrite.
Point is, you were wrong. End of story.
Point is, if you were so concerned about the truth, you would have corrected the original (and nastier) statement.
You didn't.
Point irrelevant.
Isn't easy to admit you're wrong, is it?
I wasn't WRONG about anything; most people here believe what presidio said anyway, regardless of what you as head cheerleader say.
Like I said, if you were concerned about being facts about Rush being WRONG, you'd be all over presidio.
You're so damn transparent. You're proven all you're doing is stalking me. It's personal with you.
And I was RIGHT about that. As usual.
Yeah, you were wrong. And you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to Rush, as usual. And you can't admit it.
Are you drinking tonight? Your posts aren't making sense.
But thanks for playing; everybody can see what's going on here with you. Finally.
My posts have made perfect sense, and make one single point, which you cannot for some reason (perhaps your paranoia about "stalking" and everyone watching you and whatnot) fathom: you were wrong in your assertion. That's it. Not complicated.
Nothing complicated about it is right; you feigned "setting the facts straight" without addressing the original poster. Dishonest way to take a shot at me.
Most anybody who can read and comprehend the English language can now understand what you're doing.
Most of the people reading this are probably wondering why one of Rush's flunkies doesn't have more important things to do than peruse the threads on FR to defend her man.
Of course, when they see it's not about Rush, it's about me, it all will make sense.
Humor lightens the load in any given circumstance.
Ah, I see: you are imagining yourself in some high drama with an audience whose thoughts you're channeling. Meanwhile, back on planet earth, I'm disagreeing with a statement you made.
Reality. Try it sometime.
Consider yourself added. I haven't done any for a while, but the next time I do, you'll be included.
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