[OldFriend]

The question is....do we think Imadamnutjob is mad?

YESWEDO

[No Blue States]

"He will speak with a slight stutter and occasionally this stutter will frustrate him causing him to hit his hand upon his thigh."

Alalalalalahu Akakakabar...unggghhh! slap!

Im the mahahahadi Dammit!

[RaceBannon]

No, previous statements is that he is awaiting the return of the Mahdi

http://www.antimullah.com

[DoctorMichael]

Your post is intriguing since I am following this aspect of the Iranian story here at FR closely. There are two conclusions that the facts presented lead one to, either.............

1) He's incredibly immature to choose this, in which case he's dangerous as a major official and policy-maker of Iran and must be taken out, or.........

2) He does believe it, in which case he's dangerous AND delusional and must be taken out.

[Perdogg]

Friday/Saturday is the supposed birthday of the Al Madhi.

15th of Sabaan.

[Dajjal]

There's something strange here. While the first name of the Iranian president is "Mahmoud", the domain registration says "Mahdi". In Islamic eschatology, the Mahdi is the prophesied redeemer of Islam, who will change the world into a perfect Islamic society before the end of times. It is well known that Ahmadinejad is a strong believer in the return of the Mahdi. But isn't this registration a strong indication that he (or his staff) believes that he himself is the Mahdi?

While "The Mahdi" ("the rightly guided one") is the title given to the Muslim "messiah" in the hadith, it is also a fairly common name -- both as a surname and as a given name. Muslims often have a whole string of names, too. I'm not surprised that "Mahdi" might be one of Ahmadinejad's.

But it means zilch in terms of his or anyone else's eschatological beliefs.

For an explanation of Muslim eschatology, see my FR homepage.

[FastCoyote]

I found the same. I posted it a couple times, but got no response. He is listed as Mahdi Ahmadi Nejad, it sure freaked me out.