Dilligence is in order- something is coming up... here's some traffic I ran across in the blogosphere:
My money is on August 22nd the day Iran is to give the world its answer on the overly generous nuke package. Rockets Brain is reporting on Robert Spencer's: Iran's Day of Terror?
Farid Ghadry, the president of the Reform Party of Syria, has offered a provocative explanation for this delay. He asserts that the Supreme National Security Council of Iran chose the August 22 date “for a very precise reason. August 21, 2006 (Rajab 27, 1427) is known in the Islamic calendar as the Night of the Sira’a and Miira’aj, the night Prophet Mohammed (saas) ascended to heaven from the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on a Bourak (Half animal, half man), while a great light lit-up the night sky, and visited Heaven and Hell also Beit al-Saada and Beit al-Shaqaa (House of Happiness and House of Misery) and then descended back to Mecca.…”
Read it all at JihadWatch
This morning in FrontPage I discuss the August 22 deadline that Iran's Thug-In-Chief has given for responding to the West's jizya offer (news links in the original):
Here is a link to Joel Richardson's 'Will Islam Be Our Future' that will help explaining Ahmedinejad's fascination with the Mahdi and the Islamic End Times and how it is intertwined with Revelation.
Thanks backhoe for the additional links and thoughts.
OPINION: I do agree, the little twerp (aka AllMyJihad) does seem
to think that he is the great Mahdi -- little man complex with weird
ideas.
Anyway, I do take the little twerp seriously. He reminds me of
Napoleon and Hitler -- full of himself and caring about no one.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5706
"Meanwhile, Back in Baghdad"
by John B. Dwyer
July 27th, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The world’s attention is now focused on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict between the region’s only fully functioning democracy and the Shiite “Party of God,” a terrorist group armed and supported by Syria and Iran, members in foul standing of the axis of evil. But the conflict in Baghdad, the capital and symbolic heart of Iraq, remains crucial to the success of the global war on Islamic terror. Important threads connect the two theatres of conflict.
Iran is the central malefactor. Of that dangerous, rogue state, I was reminded of the description of Professor Moriarty delivered by Holmes to Watson in The Final Problem when Sherlock tells the good doctor that
“he sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations and he knows well every quiver of each of them.”
The evil arachnid Ahmadinejad sits in Tehran, the fiendish filaments of his web stretching from Beirut to Baghdad and beyond.
Iran’s Republican Guard Corps (IRGC) has been actively supporting terrorism in Iraq for some time now. For example, as posted at Iraq The Model (ITM) on May 13, 2006, the reliable Az-Zaman newspaper reported that the IRGC has been supplying al Qaeda in Iraq with SAM-7 anti-aircraft missiles, more powerful IEDs, machine guns and rifles. This infusion of murderous materiele was facilitated by Hezbollah after al Qaeda representatives met in Beirut to establish channels with Tehran.
Iran’s border with Iraq is a long one, too long at the moment for Coalition and Iraqi forces to secure. Iran’s Ahmadinejad and Iraq’s Muqtada al-Sadr share the same apocalyptic vision about the rise of the “Savior” or “Hidden” Imam of Shia Islam. They both believe in the “Imam Mahdi” hence Sadr’s “Mahdi army.” From ITM:
“Ahmedinejad and Sadr believe it is their duty to pave the way and prepare the ground for the rise of the Imam [which] requires certain conditions… we are seeing some signs here [in Baghdad] that make us think that Iran and its tools in Iraq are trying to provoke [that] rise…”
No wonder that Sadr stated the other day that he is going to send 1500 picked men to bolster Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon."
http://stardate.org/nightsky/moon/index.php?month=8&year=2006&css=moon.css&Submit=Go