Fighting Irish got the message: "I started to make a joke about this then stopped when I considered just how unstable these Islamofreaks really are..."
I've noticed some interesting events in the recent past:
May 2006: The whackjob leader of Iran sent President Bush a letter officially demanding we embrace Islam. It ended with the term: VASALAM ALA MAN ATABA 'al hoda
This is the same term used in letters by Muhammad to the Byzantine, Persian, and Ethiopian emperors of his day warning them to accept Islam and his rule or suffer the consequences, and a letter from Khomeini to Mikhail Gorbachev along similar lines.
June 29: This is the deadline the U.S. and the EU gave Iran on concessions related to their nuclear program. Iran responds they will give their answer on AUGUST 22. The UN deadline is August 31st.
And this from the president of the Reform Party in Syria, Farid Ghadry claims, “Ahmadinejad is planning an illumination of the night sky over Jerusalem to rival the one that greeted the Prophet of Islam on his journey,” then it is difficult to imagine anything other than a full-scale Iranian nuclear attack...As Spencer continues, “a nuclear attack on Jerusalem or even an all-out conventional assault against Israel by Iran would be consistent with Ahmadinejad’s oft-repeated denials of Israel’s right to exist and recent predictions that its demise was at hand.” These observations are the latest from a growing list of ominous portents from Iranian and Syrian leaders too horrific to ignore.
I am also surprised that this post inspired so much levity. The point of Lewis's comments isn't that HE thinks the world is going to end, or that it will end, but that the crazy leaders of Iran might do something drastic to advance the apocalyptic vision that they have. Now, they might not attempt this on August 22nd, but there are strong indications that they plan something big against Israel as soon as they are able and when they think the time is right.
Look, most of us have been manning the Middle East Live threads for weeks. The people here are a LOT smarter than you seem to think. Just because you have no sense of humor, don't come onto this thread and try your gloom and doom crap on us. We know what we're facing. This is our way of handling it. If you want to run around in circles and whine like a baby, be my guest, but don't you make snide remarks about us having FUN. Got it?
Interesting information and chilling. If Rat Face really is planning to strike Jerusalem, he'll kill a good number of Palestinians too. I can't imagine a Shiite Persian slaughter of Sunni Arabs will go over well with other Arabs, even if it does take out some Israelis along with it. Jordan in particular I think would be apoplectic from the fall out that would come there way. I guess we'll just have to see what this lunatic has in mind. Surely he has to know his country will be wiped off the map if he does this.
I wasn't joking. I believe that I am the Messiah.
Don't forget that Israel has some of the very best intel world wide. They'll not be caught off guard, neither will we. Israel also has a huge stockpile of nukes....soooo I'd think that Iran's president may get one big ole' surprise.
God forbid if anything should go down on the 22nd, but it will wipe the cuteness off to 'Oh My God!' in a nano-second.
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Was just thinking the same thing.
Excellent post; excellent points. And I came to the thread for the same reasons, BTW.
TO ME . . . starting a thread like this and wanting to exclude Evangelical prophecy interested Christians and their natural spontaneous comments would be like . . . what . . .
starting a thread about Jews cooking kosher and being upset because a significant percentage wanted to talk about various ways to cook chicken according to a particular sect's traditions.
Sheesh.
Oh, look, here's a "Doom and Gloomer" right now!
What, like we wouldn't want to PROVOKE them now, would we? < /sarcasm>
Cordially,