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Re:Lamont/Lieberman - 2006/08/21 22:50
Boomer,
Welcome back
I agree with you. It is so tiring to hear the people who have given up on the war on terrorism. And make no mistake - Hezbollah is a part of it. The UN makes me laugh because they are so ineffectual. The Gateway Pundit had a good article about Kofi Annan yesterday - it is definitely worth the read. Here is the link.
I think that article says it all.
Tomorrow is the day that Iran has promised their "multifaceted" response to the UN's demand that they stop uranium enrichment. There is quite a bit of history associated with this date. I won't take the time to write the entire story, but you can check it out at Confederate Yankee. Here are a few choice comments:
This year, Aug. 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 (c.f., Koran XVII.1). This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and if necessary of the world. It is far from certain that Mr. Ahmadinejad plans any such cataclysmic events precisely for Aug. 22. But it would be wise to bear the possibility in mind.
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Iranian President Ahmadinejad and the Hojjatieh movement of the ruling mullahcracy in Iran are so radical that they were banned in 1983 by Ayatollah Khomeini, and it is this sect of Shiite Islam that seek to force the return of the 12th Shiite Imam, Muhammad ibn Hasan. Followers of the three major world religions all believe that the world will one day face an End Times scenario, but only this sect feeling that forcing the hand of God is within their grasp:
...rooted in the Shiite ideology of martyrdom and violence, the Hojjatieh sect adds messianic and apocalyptic elements to an already volatile theology. They believe that chaos and bloodshed must precede the return of the 12th Imam, called the Mahdi. But unlike the biblical apocalypse, where the return of Jesus is preceded by waves of divinely decreed natural disasters, the summoning of the Mahdi through chaos and violence is wholly in the realm of human action. The Hojjatieh faith puts inordinate stress on the human ability to direct divinely appointed events. By creating the apocalyptic chaos, the Hojjatiehs believe it is entirely in the power of believers to affect the Mahdi’s reappearance, the institution of Islamic government worldwide, and the destruction of all competing faiths.
Because of the belief of the Hojjatieh that they can, with human hands, bring about Apocalypse, the significance of tomorrow's date sets up in their eyes a divine opportunity that the rest of the world would be wise to treat with all due seriousness.
Interesting - even if the 12th Imam does not appear.
Israel/Lebanon is a small part of the GWOT (BTW - you can check out my article on that particular war here.) At any rate, some young Lebanese Muslims were arrested in Germany in the last few days. They are charged with trying to blow up trains within Germany. German reaction - people on the street - has been, "We didn't go to Iraq for the war. We never thought anything like this would happen here." Oh yea - the reason the young man wanted to blow up German trains - his brother was killed in the Israel/Lebanon conflict. Normal responses to this type of war don't work.
Hey - how about the guy from Simsbury that got busted for trying to bribe government officials to take the Tamil Tigers off the terrorist list?
Post edited by: Specter, at: 2006/08/21 22:52
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