the sudden interest might be linked to this lunatic with his 12th Imam fantasies unleashing and raining destruction on all of us - because of those beliefs. If we know them better we are forearmed. Otherwise we are ostriches.
I found this peice to be erudite and detailed and wanted to share it.
Alan Peters has been shouting warnings to the sky about Ahmadi-Nejad and the Hojatieh on his http://www.antimullah.com site, go take a look and you wil perhaps see why this may be the most important crisis in all of our lives. Read the "Mullah Threat Not Sinking In"
From the website:
"As devotees of the 12th Imam, the Hojatieh firmly believe he will return only when the world contains enough oppression, misery, tyranny and sorrow to warrant his coming. To hasten and facilitate the return, they believe in spreading evil, tyranny and misery and argue that standing in the way of all these delays his coming and their redemption."
Eeek!....no amount of Euro/Iran or Iran/UN dialogue is going to stop fanatics. (See tagline)