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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Don't you have some signed pictures of Rush to mail out?
By the way, you're still wrong.
Much appreciate it.
Night and please be safe!. Prayers!
True enough.
But some flavors delivered in some manners in some contexts come off very cruel and unfitting. Not on this thread, to my mind. I've been rather comfortable with the black humor on this thread. Perhsps too much so.
But humor can be a hazardous thing wrongly or poorly done in some situations.
Making a joke about mothers eating their own and aborted babies, for example, in front of a mother who just had a still birth would not be very tolerable at all, imho.
Of course.
JUST WALK AWAY! JUST WALK AWAY!
I hope this thread isn't dead, funny stuff.
Wake up call: Were any of the planes heading out of England this morning going to Israel??????????
Not the targeted ones. All were headed to our soil: United, Continental and American Airlines. Some reports have included British Airways.
I mock and look down upon your sacred beliefs. . .
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Sounds great. Go back to the "Religion" forum. We'll all be happier.
Ping for later (but before the 22nd).
No one cares that you are an Evangelical. You are starting to sound like a gay person: Always trying to draw the conversation back to one aspect of your personal life.
Don't bother reasoning with lunatics. This wingnut took a typically lame Moose-limb prophesy to heart and decided to use that as an excuse to jam his own particular brand of religion down our throats.
Well, I guess that means Tueday's out. Got anything going Wednesday?
Cordially,
holy crap what about the next season of LOST, someone get on the phone...i HAVE TO KNOW THE ENDING TO LOST!!!
You're wasting your time.
Ohno, you didn't! Ewwwww, why would she think her youth would let her get away with that?! Ewwww....
Figures it would be about the Cubs winning the World Series...
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