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Radical Shiite clerics on American soil preach prophetic showdown with US
FOX NEWS ^ | March 2, 2026 | Asra Q. Nomani

Posted on 03/02/2026 8:02:09 AM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: dajjal; deodbandiislam; deportthem; endtimesprophesy; iran; mamdani; showdown; virginia
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What’s going on with Virginia
1 posted on 03/02/2026 8:02:09 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Virginia needs more bacon.


2 posted on 03/02/2026 8:03:44 AM PST by Skwor
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To: artichokegrower

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

Shia’s are very end times prophecy


3 posted on 03/02/2026 8:04:22 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: artichokegrower

Showdown’s over. You lost dipshit.


4 posted on 03/02/2026 8:04:30 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: artichokegrower

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


5 posted on 03/02/2026 8:04:53 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Ice, Ice Baby)
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To: artichokegrower

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


6 posted on 03/02/2026 8:06:56 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Supreme Court Sucks. Time for the old dinosaur to go along with the U.N. and NATO.)
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To: Karliner

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


7 posted on 03/02/2026 8:07:08 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Ice, Ice Baby)
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To: BigFreakinToad

Pronto.


8 posted on 03/02/2026 8:14:19 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: artichokegrower

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


9 posted on 03/02/2026 8:14:20 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Skwor

Lots more.


10 posted on 03/02/2026 8:14:28 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: artichokegrower
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.

11 posted on 03/02/2026 8:18:29 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Is the mahdi that kid Timmy that fell down the well?


12 posted on 03/02/2026 8:23:01 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: artichokegrower

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


13 posted on 03/02/2026 8:24:39 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: BigFreakinToad

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.


14 posted on 03/02/2026 8:30:04 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Karliner

I have a bad feeling about that too.


15 posted on 03/02/2026 8:30:58 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Ice, Ice Baby)
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To: Karliner

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


16 posted on 03/02/2026 8:42:50 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Start rounding them up!


17 posted on 03/02/2026 8:48:23 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: sauropod

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18 posted on 03/02/2026 8:56:54 AM PST by sauropod
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To: HYPOCRACY

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.


19 posted on 03/02/2026 9:00:49 AM PST by ckilmer (`61)
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"The saviour the warrior the dominator ‘ imam mahdi ’ [sic] will arrive," read another.


20 posted on 03/02/2026 9:21:16 AM PST by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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