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Iran to Nuke Israel Tommorow?
Human Events ^ | Jul 26, 2006 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 08/21/2006 10:32:24 AM PDT by truthfinder9

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has frustrated Western officials by refusing to reply to their offer of various incentives in exchange for Iran’s discarding its nuclear program until August 22. The Western governments had asked Ahmadinejad to reply by June 29; why would Tehran need two extra months?

Farid Ghadry, the president of the Reform Party of Syria, has offered a provocative explanation for this delay. He asserts that the Supreme National Security Council of Iran chose the August 22 date “for a very precise reason. August 21, 2006 (Rajab 27, 1427) is known in the Islamic calendar as the Night of the Sira’a and Miira’aj, the night Prophet Mohammed (saas) ascended to heaven from the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on a Bourak (Half animal, half man), while a great light lit-up the night sky, and visited Heaven and Hell also Beit al-Saada and Beit al-Shaqaa (House of Happiness and House of Misery) and then descended back to Mecca.…”

The Night Journey, or Miraj, is central to Islam’s claim to Jerusalem as an Islamic holy city. According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad was carried on a Buraq, a miraculous horse with a human head, from Mecca to Jerusalem, where he ascended into heaven and met the other prophets. The only thing the Qur’an has to say about it is this: “Glory to (Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless, in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things)” (17:1). There is no identification of the “farthest Mosque” with any mosque in Jerusalem in this, but the Hadith is very clear on the identification of its location with Jerusalem.

The traditions say that Muhammad and the Buraq, along with the angel Gabriel, went to the Temple Mount, and from there to heaven itself, where Muhammad encountered various prophets. In the sixth heaven was Moses, occasioning a dig at the Jews. “When I left him,” Muhammad says, “he wept. Someone asked him, ‘What makes you weep?’ Moses said, ‘I weep because after me there has been sent (Muhammad as a Prophet) a young man, whose followers will enter Paradise in greater numbers than my followers.’”

Evidently, however, Muhammad’s stories of his journey were not altogether convincing: some Muslims even abandoned Islam. Did he really go anywhere? According to his favorite wife, Aisha, he didn’t: “The apostle’s body remained where it was but God removed his spirit by night.” Nevertheless, the Night Journey has become firmly embedded in the Islamic consciousness, such that Muslims today celebrate it as one of the central events of Muhammad’s life. And now, according to Ghadry, Ahmadinejad is planning an illumination of the night sky over Jerusalem to rival the one that greeted the Prophet of Islam on his journey. What the Iranian President, he says, is “promising the world by August 22 is the light in the sky over the Aqsa Mosque that took place the night before. That is his answer to the package of incentives the international community offered Iran on June 6.”

Certainly a nuclear attack on Jerusalem or even an all-out conventional assault against Israel by Iran would be consistent with Ahmadinejad’s oft-repeated denials of Israel’s right to exist and recent predictions that its demise was at hand. He hinted at the use of nuclear weapons in his phrasing when he said that Israel “pushed the button of its own destruction” by finally retaliating against Hizballah’s relentless rocket barrage from south Lebanon.

“Arrogant powers,” Ahmadinejad said, “have set up a base for themselves to threaten and plunder nations in the region. But today, the occupier regime” -- that is, Israel -- “whose philosophy is based on threats, massacre and invasion, has reached its finishing line.”

Will he attempt to make good on these threats this year on the anniversary of the Miraj, illuminating the night sky over Jerusalem? Will Western powers heed Farid Ghadry’s words and move to stop Iran before it is too late?

Mr. Spencer is director of Jihad Watch and author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)" and the forthcoming "The Truth About Muhammad."


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To: truthfinder9

Iran would only nuke Israel if Iran's leadership has totally checked out on reality


21 posted on 08/21/2006 10:47:18 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: dfwgator

and New Orleans...


22 posted on 08/21/2006 10:47:44 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: goldstategop

No the middle east ends, and Israel has a 1-10 mile hole in it.


23 posted on 08/21/2006 10:47:53 AM PDT by veryconernedamerican
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To: goldstategop

Interesting time to read Ezekiel, Chapters 38 & 39.

I heard a Rabbi on Savage Nation discussing this last week.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/KjvEzek.html


24 posted on 08/21/2006 10:48:38 AM PDT by i_dont_chat (I have the right to offend. You can take offense or not.)
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To: allen08gop

If Iran pushes the button, Iran is toast.
They will get paid back ten fold what they dish out.

I think they know it, but I also think they are also crazy enough to do it. They are backed into a corner, like a rabid dog, and will bite soon.


25 posted on 08/21/2006 10:50:44 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: truthfinder9

Nothing is going to happen. It's just typical Middle Eastern hyperbole. (see Bob, Baghdad)


26 posted on 08/21/2006 10:50:44 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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To: Fee
On the other hand if Israel is destroyed and nobody saves her, does that mean the Christian religion is wrong? That is why one must not be too hung up on predicting when the end times is. Christ had said we will not know the time nor hour.

It doesn't take much more than a firecracker going off in the Middle East for someone to say "The End is Near!"
27 posted on 08/21/2006 10:51:16 AM PDT by Galactic Overlord-In-Chief
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To: Fee
On the other hand if Israel is destroyed and nobody saves her, does that mean the Christian religion is wrong?

Guess that depends on who you ask. I support Israel and all that, but I'm not so sure THIS Israel is the one spoken of in prophesy. It is a secular nation, not the theocracy that existed during the time scripture was written.

28 posted on 08/21/2006 10:51:34 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: TheDon
Perhaps the answer will be a North Korea underground nuke test. Iran may then claim to have a similar nuke from the North Koreans.

I think you may have something there. Iran could then claim to be a member of the nuclear weapon club without directly provoking the U.S. by conducting their own test.

29 posted on 08/21/2006 10:52:47 AM PDT by IndyTiger
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To: truthfinder9

Some guy cops to a child murder he probably had nothing to do with. And Stinky has the world worrying about what he will be doing tomorrow. What a world!


30 posted on 08/21/2006 10:53:01 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (This space for rent.)
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31 posted on 08/21/2006 10:55:44 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
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To: i_dont_chat
Interesting time to read Ezekiel, Chapters 38 & 39. I heard a Rabbi on Savage Nation discussing this last week.

I don't think it fits. If Iran indeed is planning a nuclear attack, I doubt they would send an army of the size spoken of in the prophesy into a land that's going to be doused with radiation. Plus the references to an Israel as an unwalled city, a city without gates, of people dwelling safely there...well not if you live in Northern Israel right now. I don't think everyone's gone back to their homes yet. I don't even see how the prophesy fits with the Iranians being so vocal in their threat, doesn't the Ezekiel attack seem like something that's supposed to come when Israel's enemies are seemingly defeated? Interestingly, Syria is not in the list of nations attacking Israel.

Just some thoughts.
32 posted on 08/21/2006 10:58:10 AM PDT by Galactic Overlord-In-Chief
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To: duckbutt
I've read the Book - - Israel doesn't get destroyed, but woe to Damascus - - and Russia...and probably Terhan.....

And Baghdad! Or, that has probably already happened?

33 posted on 08/21/2006 10:58:55 AM PDT by ItsTheMediaStupid
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To: MEGoody

What Israel do you think it is, then?


34 posted on 08/21/2006 10:58:56 AM PDT by Galactic Overlord-In-Chief
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To: truthfinder9
Breaking! Here's a shot of the head Ayatollah in Tehran, preparing to check if the 12th Imman see's his shadow, which would signal 876 more years of living in the 11th century.


35 posted on 08/21/2006 10:59:11 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: PA-RIVER
They are backed into a corner, like a rabid dog, and will bite soon.

Not to be contrary, but it appears to me that Israel is the one backed into a corner. Iran seems to have most of the world's support. They're livin' large, so I don't see any urgency in them attacking Israel at this point. They CERTAINLY won't attack Israel before they actually have a nuclear weapon. I can't imagine they'd come all this way to launch a conventional attack and see their country turned into Swiss cheese. And even if they have a weapon, how will they deliver it? They can't just fuel a rocket like they're at the self-service pump. We would see it days ahead of time.

Anyhow, I think we're in for some kind of massive terrorist attack in the Middle East. The Saudis busted up a cell of terrorists yesterday. I don't expect anything in the United States. Busting the liquid bomb project probably disrupted and compromised anything else they may have had planned in the Western Hemisphere.

36 posted on 08/21/2006 10:59:33 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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To: truthfinder9
Tourist Guy will keep us advised.


37 posted on 08/21/2006 11:00:09 AM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: shield
I just checked the old farmers almanac and it said "Advice of the Day - Everybody is wise after the event."

It's 9:30 pm in Tehran, we got another 2.5 hours to find out.

38 posted on 08/21/2006 11:00:53 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: truthfinder9

Funny, I didn't see that on my 21 day planner for tomorrow.


39 posted on 08/21/2006 11:00:57 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (A few clever bones tossed on gay unions, flag burning & Iraq still don't absolve GWB over BORDERS)
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To: white trash redneck

MAD Mutual Assured Destruction


40 posted on 08/21/2006 11:01:48 AM PDT by mel
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