Radical Shiite clerics on American soil preach prophetic showdown with US

FOX NEWS ^ | March 2, 2026 | Asra Q. Nomani

[artichokegrower]

MANASSAS, Va. – For many, the war with Iran — and the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — might seem like the climactic end to a long, brutal reign of terror by the theological clerics who have run the country since 1979.

But a Fox News Digital investigation reveals that, for certain hardline Shiite ideologues, including in the U.S., this is not an ending but a prophetic showdown that will usher in the arrival of the "Mahdi," a messiah, according to Islamic eschatology, or the theology of end times.

In this prophecy, Mahdi will emerge to battle Dajjal, the Islamic equivalent of the Antichrist, in a final battle of Armageddon. For many of these ideologues, President Donald Trump is Dajjal.

[artichokegrower]

What’s going on with Virginia

[Skwor]

Virginia needs more bacon.

[Karliner]

well, Elam is in the bible and there will be a showdown.

Shia’s are very end times prophecy

[HYPOCRACY]

Showdown’s over. You lost dipshit.

[BigFreakinToad]

“What’s going on with Virginia” When stupidity reaches critical mass

[FlingWingFlyer]

Virginia has given up statehood and gone back to being a colony under Queen Spamburger.

[BigFreakinToad]

I read somewhere this Iranian superhero was going to come out of well in some remote shithole. Send him a 2000 pound welcome basket

[No name given]

Pronto.

[Terry L Smith]

Time for all cowboys to mount up, the moose limbs’ desires need to be actualized!

[No name given]

Lots more.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

for certain hardline Shiite ideologues, including in the U.S., this is not an ending but a prophetic showdown that will usher in the arrival of the "Mahdi," a messiah, according to Islamic eschatology, or the theology of end times.

Uh, I think we just had the showdown and Ayatollah Khamenei and his thugs lost to Trump.

[Deaf Smith]

Is the mahdi that kid Timmy that fell down the well?

[rktman]

What’s her name. Spanburger? She’s pretty useless so don’t expect any action.

[Karliner]

That would be interesting! Like most false religions there’s some hint of truth. Islam is completely opposite of who Jesus is so maybe their happy prophet will make an appearance before the big showdown.

This whole war is spiraling into something way bigger.

[BigFreakinToad]

I have a bad feeling about that too.

[artichokegrower]

At a recent Friday sermon at a local Shiite mosque in northern Virginia, an imam closed prayer with an earnest plea, before war broke out in Iran: “May Allah destroy all the nonbelievers – or kafiroon or munafiqoon,” he said, using Arabic words that refer to “nonbelievers” and “hypocrites.”

I’m a kafiroon and proud of it. Also a well armed kafiroon so be warned

[Georgia Girl 2]

Start rounding them up!

[sauropod]

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[ckilmer]

these are forever wars.

The advantage now shifts to the west. and the advantage will last for decades. but its not over. because these forever wars are built in to competing scriptures.

[wafflehouse]

"The saviour the warrior the dominator ‘ imam mahdi ’ [sic] will arrive," read another.