Can the Iranian president be any kookier?
No.
No, I don’t believe it’s possible.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims the United States is attempting to thwart the return of mankind’s savior, according to reports from Al Arabiya, a television news station based in Dubai.
Ahmadinejad reportedly claims he has documented evidence that the U.S. is blocking the return of Mahdi, the Imam believed by Muslims to be the savior.
“We have documented proof that they believe that a descendant of the prophet of Islam will raise in these parts and he will dry the roots of all injustice in the world,” Ahmadinejad said during a speech on Monday, according to Al Arabiya.
“They have devised all these plans to prevent the coming of the Hidden Imam because they know that the Iranian nation is the one that will prepare the grounds for his coming and will be the supporters of his rule,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
The Iranian regime continues to develop nuclear power for “purely peaceful” purposes.
Which is, you know: Something of a relief.
Unclenched fists, and that. And us all powerful.
Im curious to know what his definition of “injustice” is. Sure seems a lot different than mine.
There’s a reason why, when A’jad was mayor of Teheran, he spent $25 million building a road from the Mahdi’s well to the city. Guys like this think their actions can hasten the arrival of the twelfth (Shi’a) imam and everything they do is with that in mind.
What with the “Hidden Imam” coming back to Iran, one wonders what need they have for ten additional refined uranium factory sites they have. It would seem that if the first doesn’t happen in time, they’ll be prepared with the second … just in case the Imam doesn’t arrive in time.
Which does give us cause for concern: peaceful use for all of that enriched, weapons grade uranium? You don’t suppose they’d be interested in helping the “Hidden Imam” with some hidden bombs via some underground attacks, do you?
Kooky? Maybe. With a Back-up Plan. Yes.
Of course, is this not a foreshadowing of how our shiny co-dominium with the Chinese will work?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20227400/site/newsweek/print/1/displaymode/1098/
David, I not from the link that 20-25% of all Americans believe in reincarnation. Does that mean that 1in 4 of those posting here are all modern day Bridey Murphys?
“A quarter of U.S. Christians, including 10 percent of all born-again Christians…”
Maybe I’m missing something, but what is the difference between a Christian and a “born-again” Christian? Isn’t that a bit redundant? I would think that someone who isn’t born again (according to John 3:3-8 and 1 Peter 1:23) couldn’t truthfully call themselves a Christian.
MajHarvey, I suspect the same difference as between conservatives and neoconservatives. Both are conservatives (though perhaps not quite so much to the “intellectual” crowd), though there is a bit of the perjoritive attached to the latter in both cases.
Hope all is going well with you and your loved ones.
A terrible analogy perhaps bordering on being sacrilegious but I’d go with the RINO comparison. Someone who calls themself a member of a certain party while consistently opposing everything it purports to stand for.
I’ve always understood born-again christians to be prodigal children. Christians (no categorical) never left the fold.
Dear Major Harvey,
Many (likely most) Orthodox and Catholic Christians would call themselves as Christians but understand “born again” to denote an Evangelical or Fundamentalist Protestant self-definition. I’m a Catholic convert from Protestant and in spite of 20 years as a Catholic I continue to be surprised by the hostility of some (very deeply religious in the best sense of that word) Catholics to Evangelicals (not to mention Fundies, but then many Catholics, like our media, have a hard time telling the difference).
Yep, CIA bubbas got that Mahdi locked up down in Gitmo. Found him wandering the AfPak wilderness we did, pants pockets filled with plutonium pits and vials of tritium. He’ll be the next on trial in NYC until Holder releases. This is almost as ludicrous as someone being in office 11 days and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Unhuh, those two deserve each other – “unclenched fists and all”. The Sunnis are getting more worried than the Jews.
Our man in Iran is simply laying the predicate for the beginning of an attempt to rally the nation around a religious issue rather than asking their support in defending the morality (a harder case to make) of production of nuclear weapons–by citing western attempts at diplomatic/economic/financial coercion as ones of an anti-religious nature–as opposed to being against the production of nuclear weapons
I disagree, VX.
This Iranian President actually, well & truly, believes that if he can start Armageddon, then the 12th Imam will return and start their version of the rapture.
Ahmadinejad has written and spoken widely about his beliefs, and is a full-press believer in his religion. He has stated exactly what he intends to do, and to whom, and why, and is doing his very best to follow through on that plan.
Western leaders all claim it’s simply saber-rattling, political pandering and prattling for his audience, but it’s not. The West will find, sooner, sadly, rather than later, that Ahmadinejad speaks only the truth, says what he means, and we will reap a bitter harvest from this crop because we collectively failed to deal with the problem up front.
This same story played out in an eerily similar way in the first half of the 20th century, with close to 100 million dead, and large swaths of the world laid bare, all because diplomats and world political leaders refused to accept that Hitler was stone-cold serious when he wrote Mein Kampf, and in the speeches and pamphlets that followed.
Barring a massive military strike against Iran, I expect to see a good portion of Israel turned to glass in the next couple years, via Iranian nuclear weapons, and Israel responding in kind, with a large escalation following on. I simply can’t see any form of common sense, of clear-thinking, coming from the leadership of this nation, and especially not from the EU or the muslim world.
Oh, I don’t disagree with anything you say, Tim, I just think that, considering the new demonstrations that are taking place even this very day, he also has to shore up his domestic side of the house–and laying off the blame on the US for everything bad conveniently dovetails as a tactic to further shore up his rear while he advances his “true-believer” religious beliefs.