Posted on 05/16/2010 1:41:25 PM PDT by Lorianne
TEHRAN, Iran — A radical cleric called Saturday for the creation of a “Greater Iran” that would rule over the entire Middle East and Central Asia, in an event that he said would herald the coming of Islam’s expected messiah.
Ayatollah Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi said the creation of what he calls an Islamic United States is a central aim of the political party he leads called Hezbollah, or Party of God, and that he hoped to make it a reality if they win the next presidential election.
Kharrazi’s comments reveal the thinking of a growing number of hard-liners in Iran, many of whom have become more radical during the postelection political crisis and the international standoff over the country’s nuclear program. Kharrazi, however, is not highly influential in Iran’s clerical hierarchy and his views do not represent those of the current government.
Kharrazi’s comments were published Saturday in his newspaper, Hezbollah.
He said he envisioned a Greater Iran that would stretch from Afghanistan to Israel, bringing about the destruction of the Jewish state.
He also said its formation would be a prelude to the reappearance of the Mahdi, a revered ninth-century saint known as the Hidden Imam, whom Muslims believe will reappear before judgment day to end tyranny and promote justice in the world.
“The Islamic United States will be an introduction to the formation of the global village of the oppressed and that will be a prelude to the single global rule of the Mahdi,” the Hezbollah newspaper quoted him as saying.
Besides Israel, he said the union would also destroy Shiite Iran’s other regional adversaries, whom he called “cancerous tumors.” He singled out secular Arab nationalists such as members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party in Iraq, as well as followers of the austere version of Sunni Islam practiced primarily in Saudi Arabia that is known as Wahabism.
Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Arab nations have watched Iran’s growing regional clout with deep concern.
The growing voice of hard-liners like Kharrazi has deepened worries even if it appears unlikely such a divisive figure would win the 2013 presidential election.
Still, even President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that he expects the government which follows his to be “ten times more revolutionary.”
Hussein hasn’t been if office that long, give him time.
They’re insane, but so far they are winning.
Besides the Persian empire there was a modern-day Iran based empire that dominated modern day Iran and a bunch of the ‘stan countries until the Mongols laid waste to the region.
With POTUS Obama in their camp, radical Islam may get its wish!!!
I call for a Jewish Iran....
Pretty much.
They don't even have to call for an Islamic America. 0bozo is hard at work already trying to make it happen.
They are winning .... or whinning?
Show me their advancements in technology! Whatever credit that Obama wants to give them for their efforts over the ages is what they stole from other cultures.
We had light bulbs, power, TV and cars while they were sitting in the dark, riding camels and donkeys.... using their right hands for charmin.
Globally? Where Islam exists you have third world conditions.
I truly believe they are starting to recognize that Islam has not and cannot give them the social goods, compared to the “free industrialized west”.
The very thing they want to destroy....
Yeah- well I call for a all Muslim countries to be Christian!
We need a serious Crusade that won’t stop till it’s done.
People who are still squatting in the sand and wiping their butts with their hands don’t get to ‘call for’ anything!
If the all peoples were to be converted to Islam (either by force or otherwise), the earth would be at peace because the entire human race would be killed off.
obama agrees.
LLS
I’ll go for that ;)
I don’t think 95% of people in the US are ready to give up:
pork
music
alcohol
women in skimpy outfits
co-ed education
right to satirize anything and everything
etc. etc.
I searched and found some food for thought:
“1. There are more new Christians added to the world population than any other religion on earth every day. This data makes the entire discussion about “rates of growth” irrelevant. The fact is today, that Christianity is the fastest growing religion on this most critical basis. This may change, but today, in 2004 AD, Christians take the prize for being the fastest growing religion.
2. On none of the 6 continents are Muslims the fastest growing religion.
3. That Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world is pure myth at best and at worst a deliberate deception of solid statistical facts.”
http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-myths-fastest-growing.htm
I don’t want to underemphasize the threat of Islam but I don’t want to see it overemphasized, either.
I don’t think 50% of people in the US are ready to give up:
Christ.
Give Zero another term, and the ISSA is guaranteed.
Lol!
Muslims are the fastest growing religion in the United States and are second only to christians. Jews have moved from second to third.
The Mad Mahdi arrived January 20, 2009.
I’m sure Obama will help you set up the roots for that.
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