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(I'reading a fascinating book calledThe Siege of Mecca by Yaroslav Trofimov. I came across of section I thought Freepers might find interesting. It has to do with the Muslim concept of the "End of Days" and part played in it by Jesus Christ. It is from Chapter 5, pp. 47-48. (P.S. I having to type this in, so please forgive by hunt-and-peck fingers. Hopefully there's not too many typos.) ================================================= "The idea of a Mahdi has fuel Muslim imagination for centuries. There is no mention of it in the Quran itself . But the Phophet Mohammed, according to some nattators,...

Now that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has spoken at Columbia University, it's on to the United Nations, where there's a tight security net. As many as 25,000 people from around the metro area and the country flocked to the U.N. to protest Ahmadinejad's visit. Many are demanding an end to Iran's nuclear threat. The NYPD's eye in the sky took security pictures. On the ground, beefy machine-gun toting cops provided an extra layer of protection for Israel's foreign minister as she demand Iran's president be reigned in by the world community. "There's a need to stop Ahmadinejad," Tzipi Livni said....

This is a Shi'ite Twelver treatise on the Mahdi. Al-Imam al-Mahdi The Just Leader of Humanity by Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini Translated by Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina Click for Transliterated Version Contents Translator's Introduction Author's IntroductionChapter 1 The Beginning of the Belief in the Mahdi The Mahdi from among the Descendants of the Prophet The Sunni hadith on the Subject of the Mahdi The Objection Raised by One of the Authors Ibn Khaldun and the Traditions about the Mahdi Other Opinions from Ibn Khaldun The Existence of the Mahdi is Certain People Awaited the Appearance of the Mahdi The Discussion among the...

Despite the daily carnage on the streets of Baghdad and other Iraqi towns and cities, despite worldwide and nationwide public exhaustion with the war which has degenerated into a civil war— between two warring Islamic factions— despite the defeat of his Republican Party in the midterm elections last Novembxer as a result of public disenchantment with the war, United States President George W. Bush continues to enjoy the support of some 35 percent of the American adult population of 209 million. That translates into 73 million adult Americans who are unwavering Bush supporters. Not by coincidence, that number is only...

Do you believe the Imam-Al Mahdi is the Antichrist? The book in a free online verion with the permission of the author: Will Islam Be Our Future?-A Study of Biblical and Islamic Eschatology by Joel Richardson http://www.answering-islam.de/Main/Authors/JR/Future/index.htm The paperback title: Antichrist: Islam's Awaited Messiah by Joel Richardson The authors website: www.Joels-Trumpet.com Joels Trumpet

The Iranian who wants an apocalypse by Michael Burleigh The Daily Telegraph05/01/2007         One person we will be hearing much about in 2007 will be Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He's the hollow-eyed engineer and town planner (and former Revolutionary Guard) who in 2005 went from being Teheran's answer to Ken Livingstone to President of Iran. He's the fellow stringing along the international community while his scientists try to manufacture a nuclear bomb before America or Israel decides to degrade or destroy key experimental sites. He says appalling things with demented glee in his eyes.According to today's Spectator, Ahmadinejad may actually...

Mahmoud AhmadinejadÂ’s Letter the American People November 29th, 2006 In the name of God, the Compassionate, the MercifulO, Almighty God, bestow upon humanity the perfect human being promised to all by You, and make us among his followers.Noble Americans,Were we not faced with the activities of the US administration in this part of the world and the negative ramifications of those activities on the daily lives of our peoples, coupled with the many wars and calamities caused by the US administration as well as the tragic consequences of US interference in other countries;Were the American people not God-fearing, truth-loving, and...

According to the Iranian media Monday, Iranian President Mahoud Ahmadinejad declared that Israel was destined to ‘disappearance and destruction’ at a council meeting with Iranian ministers. “The western powers created the Zionist regime in order to expand their control of the area. This regime massacres Palestinians everyday, but since this regime is against nature, we will soon witness its disappearance and destruction,” Ahmadinejad said.

The controversial Czech TV documentary “I, A Muslim,” in which a reporter used a hidden camera to record inside mosques, has been posted (with English subtitles) at Google Video by LGF reader “Abu Kafir:” I, a Muslim

With the smoke still rising from the ruins of the al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan, intelligence agents and journalists from all over the world were already combing through the rubble in an attempt to uncover information on the nature and quality of the training the camps' roughly 20,000 graduates had received. (snip) After losing its training camps, al-Qaida went on the offensive. By 2003, the entire "Encyclopedia" was suddenly available on the Internet. Thousands of illustrated pages containing bomb-building instructions, in-depth rules on how to encode information and extensive details on organizing terrorist cells were suddenly available -- in Arabic --...

A pizza shop owner and a biochemist. An airport worker and the son of a political official. Husbands and fathers. Students as young as 17. Meet the faces of terror. Meet the madmen next door. Outside the view of friends, family and neighbors, a group of suburban men were allegedly plotting a terror campaign to rival - and even exceed - the bloodshed of 9/11. But in a series of raids that began before dawn yesterday, British police arrested 24 people - most of them sons of Britain, most of them never suspected of any wrongdoing by their neighbors. Several...

The Italian author Oriana Fallaci, who once wrote that Muslims "breed like rats", may be facing up to three years in prison after she vowed to blow up a mosque.Ms Fallaci, 75, who has cancer, is due to appear in court next week charged with the lesser offence of vilifying Islam, punishable with a £3,450 fine. But after her latest outburst in the New Yorker last week Muslim leaders are demanding that she be tried for inciting religious hatred, which carries a three-year jail term. The former journalist, who has said she will not attend Monday's hearing in Bergamo, told...

Where it's playing: The film will premiere at the American Film Renaissance’s Hollywood Film Festival on January 15, 2006 at 3PM. About the project: What the West Needs to Know Islam, violence, and the fate of the non-Muslim world. 95 mins Main Idea Virtually every major Western leader has over the past several years expressed the view that Islam is a peaceful religion and that those who commit violence in its name are fanatics who misinterpret its tenets. This claim, while widely circulated, rarely attracts serious public examination. Relying primarily on Islam’s own sources, this documentary demonstrates that Islam is...

Eminentoes TRUE FANATIC By Patrick Devenny Published 12/15/2005 12:07:50 AM President Ahmadinejad's speech before the UN General Assembly in September was a towering diplomatic dud. Instead of assuaging the prim gentlemen in the audience -- who are always willing to suffer through long harangues from third-world despots, as long as they paint the West as omnipresent villain -- Ahmadinejad indulged in warlike hyperbole, threatening to "reconsider" his nation's supposedly peaceful pursuit of nuclear energy if Washington and its allies continued to "impose their will" on Iran. The vitriol stood out in the staid chambers of the UN, giving rise to...

An Israeli intelligence analyst sees a frenzy of jihadist Internet communications as part of a "dangerous Islamic messianic whirlpool" featuring a number of prophecies culminating in the coming of the "Mahdi," reports the latest issue of the premium online intelligence newsletter Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. Some of the documents obtained in a sweep of Internet communications just before the attack on the Madrid trains are signed by an unknown sheikh – assumed to be a nom de guerre for Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri or others in leadership in al-Qaida. The communications make a number of predictions about world events...

A new miracle baby has been born in Bethlehem. That's, at least, what many Palestinians in the birthplace of Jesus believe. Ala Ayyad was born two weeks ago, on the 27th day of Ramadan, known as Lailat al-Kader, the night the Koran was revealed to Muhammad by God. Thousands of Palestinians have been thronging the Aida refugee camp at the northern entrance to Bethlehem to pay their respects to the infant boy, who is being hailed as "the miracle baby of Bethlehem." The timing of his birth was auspicious enough, but his parents were amazed to discover a large birthmark...

Jerry Golden "REPORT" PO Box 10268 Jerusalem 91102 Israel www.TheGoldenReport.com Published 11/9/2003 Islamic Warnings! There is a small article in today’s Jerusalem Post that I felt worth elaborating on. It gives us warnings of great acts of Islamic Terror that will occur at a time of a double eclipse during the Moslem month of Ramadan. The last time that happened was in 1786, it’s happening in this month of Ramadan, and it will not happen again for another 152 years. So this is the only one that will be seen in our lifetime. It should be noted that Islam like...

Imam al Mehdi (a.s.) Title:  Al-Mehdi, Saheb-ul-Asr and Al-Hujjat Kunyat:  Abul Qasim Born at Samarra, on Friday, the 15th Shaban 255 A.H. Father’s name:  Imam Hasan-al-Askari Mother’s name:  Nargis Khatoon He is still living and will appear before the end of the end. 1st Heavenly concealment: 8th Rabi-ul-Awwal 260 A.H. Final Heavenly concealment:  10th Shawwal, 328 A.H.  (939 A.D.)  There existed a good deal of harmony and uniformity between the aspects pertaining to the births of Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.), the last Apostle of God and Imam Mehdi, the last Apostolic Imam.  Just as the coming of the Holy Prophet...

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February 28, 2003 9:00 a.m.Sound Familiar? Understanding Islamic End-Times beliefs. any Evangelical Christians in America are watching events unfold in the Middle East with great interest, seeing in the preparations for war the possible unfolding of the End-Times scenario predicted in the Bible. A small segment of ultraorthodox Judaism shares an apocalyptic vision, centering around rebuilding the Temple on Mount Zion (where the Islamic Dome of the Rock Shrine and al-Aqsa mosque, now sit). What many Americans don't realize, though, is that Islam also has an eschatological endgame, and that like any Left Behind-reading American, many Muslims see current events...