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World to end on August 22
Guardian ^
| 08/09/06
| Brian Whitaker
Posted on 08/09/2006 9:02:18 AM PDT by presidio9
Better cancel those holidays. We now have a date for Armageddon, and it's a week on Tuesday - August 22.
This information comes from no lesser source than the Wall Street Journal, where Bernard Lewis, President Bush's favourite historian, provides the details.
"In Islam, as in Judaism and Christianity," the professor writes, "there are certain beliefs concerning the cosmic struggle at the end of time - Gog and Magog, anti-Christ, Armageddon, and for Shiite Muslims, the long-awaited return of the Hidden Imam, ending in the final victory of the forces of good over evil, however these may be defined.
"Mr Ahmadinejad [the Iranian president] and his followers clearly believe that this time is now, and that the terminal struggle has already begun and is indeed well advanced. It may even have a date, indicated by several references by the Iranian president to giving his final answer to the US about nuclear development by August 22. This was at first reported as 'by the end of August', but Mr Ahmadinejad's statement was more precise."
Lewis continues: "What is the significance of August 22? This year, August 22 corresponds, in the Islamic calendar, to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to 'the farthest mosque', usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back (cf, Koran XVII.1). This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and, if necessary, of the world."
This sort of quasi-religious scaremongering always finds a receptive audience in the United States, especially among Christians of the jihadist
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To: McGavin999
Sounds like more arbitrariness, to me.
Seems just as justifiable, based on the thread title, to send the good humor folks away to their own thread.
621
posted on
08/09/2006 3:52:44 PM PDT
by
Quix
(LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
To: Quix
So, the other side can get annoyed and express it their way but I can't and express it my way?That's why FR has vanity threads.
622
posted on
08/09/2006 3:53:02 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
To: small voice in the wilderness
This is going to be billed as a Freep-over, not a Freep-vival. ROTFLOL!
623
posted on
08/09/2006 3:53:07 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
To: Quix
"....They are still largely a secular nation, it seems to me . . . and that has to change, from God's perpsective..."Thanks be to God, that isn't our call.
624
posted on
08/09/2006 3:54:17 PM PDT
by
Darlin'
((,,,, ? OMG ! I've lost another tagline ?))
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast; small voice in the wilderness; McGavin999
Oh, look, here's a "Doom and Gloomer" right now!
625
posted on
08/09/2006 3:54:39 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
To: onyx
Ahhhhh, then pay attention only to the good humor posters.
WE have to pick and choose on such threads if WE are going to be hyper sensitive about our tastes and sensibilities.
Oh, I realize, it's only us Christian _#_&_@_*_ that get sent else where on such threads. I see. All other tastes and sensibilities automatically trump ours. I see.
626
posted on
08/09/2006 3:54:48 PM PDT
by
Quix
(LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
To: Quix
Um, let's see, good humor folks couple hundred posts. Wet blanket posts 20, suck up to the terrorists posts by attempting to spread fear posts.....ummm....how many times have you posted now?
627
posted on
08/09/2006 3:54:53 PM PDT
by
McGavin999
(God watch over the young lions of Israel as they fight Hell's Bullies)
To: shield
628
posted on
08/09/2006 3:55:20 PM PDT
by
Quix
(LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
To: Howlin
Bwhahahaha!!! Like clockwork...lol!
To: Quix
Get a grip, Quix and stop being a sanctimonious drama queen.
630
posted on
08/09/2006 3:56:18 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
To: Howlin
LOL.
Perhaps it depends on whether it's BB or AB.
Before Beer or After Beer.
631
posted on
08/09/2006 3:56:27 PM PDT
by
Quix
(LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
To: Howlin
Oh, come on down here Howlin, there's a couple of real gems here. They're real believers in the Amanutjobs fears. Haven't figured out if they're on Amanutjobs payroll or are just useful idiots.
632
posted on
08/09/2006 3:56:48 PM PDT
by
McGavin999
(God watch over the young lions of Israel as they fight Hell's Bullies)
To: Quix
Seems just as justifiable, based on the thread title, to send the good humor folks away to their own thread.God gave everyone the gift of humor, some just don't know how to operate that gift, through no fault of their own.
633
posted on
08/09/2006 3:57:08 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
To: BigSkyFreeper
Ahhhhh. so . . . more arbitrariness.
Your tastes and sensibilities don't have to go to vanity threads, but ours do?
634
posted on
08/09/2006 3:57:18 PM PDT
by
Quix
(LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
To: Darlin'
635
posted on
08/09/2006 3:57:52 PM PDT
by
Quix
(LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
To: small voice in the wilderness
I can see they're just not going to let us "enjoy" the end of times, can't you?
636
posted on
08/09/2006 3:58:14 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
To: Quix
Your tastes and sensibilities don't have to go to vanity threads, but ours do?Right.
637
posted on
08/09/2006 3:59:15 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
To: Howlin
Don't you find it interesting that they are so afraid of a 12th Imam who is supposed to emerge from a well?
638
posted on
08/09/2006 3:59:28 PM PDT
by
McGavin999
(God watch over the young lions of Israel as they fight Hell's Bullies)
To: McGavin999
LOL.......frankly -- and I hope they'll understand -- I don't want to die with these people around.
639
posted on
08/09/2006 3:59:31 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
To: BigSkyFreeper
They dumped his show because of his reports on muslims. They ask him to stop those reports...he told them NO WAY...so they parted company. Since Paul was raised in the middle east and has programming going into those areas...guess Paul didn't won't to step on their toes...which is a sell out by Paul...IMHO...
640
posted on
08/09/2006 4:00:56 PM PDT
by
shield
( A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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