BINGO!!!
I've been thinking that all along. This sudden media/public love affair with him is just too creepy, and I got a weird vibe about him the first time I heard his name, without even knowing who he was.
Is he a heterosexual? Doesn't the bible say that the antichrist will not "take of the favors of women" or something like that?
The antichrist prophecy also includes mention of a one-world government or something akin to that, which the antichrist is supposed to lead or be a source of a solution to a world problem or some such. I don't think we're close enough to the one-world situation yet for it to happen in his lifetime.
Actually we could be closer than we think....
Doesn't he have something about a 'muslim' background?
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover031006.htm
Which then makes the line from the article about 'grace' even more unnerving.