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What's new in the latest case is the wide range of people accused. Middle-class women and security force members allegedly formed the core of a group that authorities say called itself Ansar al-Mehdi, or Supporters of the Mehdi — a divine figure in Islamic tradition who will establish justice on Earth before Judgment Day.

Ideas have consequences. But the reporter still doesn't get it. If these ordinary, cosmopolitan Muslims are expecting the Mehdi, that means they perceive the "Signs of Qiyama" (End-Times) unfolding -- including the presence of the Dajjal (i.e., Evil Western Civilization). The reporter is still hung up on the idea that the mehdi will "establish justice" and doesn't get it that the way the Mehdi does that is by killing the Dajjal and every infidel on the face of the planet.

For an explanation of the Islamic End-Times beliefs, see my FR homepage.

Thanks... this makes an great update to an earlier article:

The Islamization of Morocco -- Extremism is displacing moderation in the North African kingdom

Excerpts:

...in Morocco's big cities and in its villages, street vendors sell Islamist propaganda calling for jihad and the subjugation of women, spewing anti-Semitism and hatred of the West, on audio and video tapes, CDs and DVDs. One of the bestselling CDs is a rant by a salafi preacher named Abdellah Nihari, who teaches that "women are creatures of Satan" even when they are veiled. For him, women's liberation is to blame for every evil in society. Islamists also have their own freelance "religious police" who operate illegally, mostly on beaches, targeting unmarried couples for harassment, assault, and even, in a few cases in recent years, murder.
Another sign of Islamization can be found in opinion surveys of Moroccan youths. According to a January 2006 study by L'Economiste, 44 percent of Moroccans aged 16 to 29 think al Qaeda is not a terrorist organization, 38 percent "don't know," and a mere 18 percent consider it a terrorist group

With the salafis running the show, no one is safe... when the butchering of all the kuffar is over, they will not be done. It will then be time to play out the prophecy of the 72 sects where followers of all the other sects of islam will have to be eradicated, islamic style, for not being the one "true believers" who have not deviated from the path of allah and engaged in "bidah."

So which ever way you look at it islam will bring them nothing but eternal bloodshed and violence and ultimately, inshallah, their own destruction.