Hello Steve,

SA>Iran and Armageddon

SA>Charles Krauthammer / Syndicated columnist

SA>WASHINGTON - Lest you get carried away with today's good news from
SA>Iraq, consider what's happening next door in Iran. The wild
SA>pronouncements of the new Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have
SA>gotten sporadic press ever since he called for Israel to be wiped off
SA>the map. He subsequently amended himself to say that Israel should
SA>simply be extirpated from the Middle East map and moved to some German
SA>or Austrian province. Perhaps near the site of an old extermination
SA>camp?

The Zionists of the 19th Century wanted the state of Israel to be
located in present-day Uganda.

SA>Except that there were no such camps, indeed no Holocaust at all, says
SA>Ahmadinejad. Nothing but "myth," a "legend" that
was "fabricated ...
SA>under the name 'Massacre of the Jews.' "

Roughly 11 million people were slaughtered (or died prematurely) under
the Nazis.  Of those 11 million, roughly 6 million were Jews.  And not
all of those Jews died as a result of being gassed to death.  Some died
of disease, others of starvation, etc.  In any event, 4 out of 5
European Jews died prematurely as a result of Nazi rule.

SA>This brought the usual reaction from European and American officials,
SA>who, with Churchillian rage and power, called these statements
SA>unacceptable. That something serious may accrue to Iran for this
SA>- say, expulsion from the U.N. for violating its most basic principle
SA>by advocating the outright eradication of a member state - is, of course,
SA>out of the question.

There are only two religious states in the world recognized by the
United Nations - Israel and Vatican City.  Of course, Iran is also a
religious state.  But that's beside the point.

SA>[...]

SA>Everyone knows where Iran's nuclear weapons will be aimed. Everyone
SA>knows they will be put on Shahab rockets that have been modified so
SA>they can now reach Israel. And everyone knows that if the button is
SA>pushed, it will be the end of Israel.

Nah.  Just the end of Tel Aviv.  And Tehran.

SA>But it gets worse. The president of a country about to go nuclear
SA>is a confirmed believer in the coming apocalypse. Like Judaism and
SA>Christianity, Shiite Islam has its own version of the messianic return
SA>u the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam. The more devout believers in
SA>Iran pray at the Jamkaran Mosque that houses a well from which, some
SA>believe, he will emerge.

Like the American president, the Iranian president wants to bring about
a self-fulfilling prophecy.  ;)

SA>When Ahmadinejad unexpectedly won the presidential elections, he
SA>immediately gave $17 million of government funds to the shrine. Last
SA>month, Ahmadinejad said publicly that the main mission of the Islamic
SA>Revolution is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth
SA>Imam.

Somebody has to make it happen.  ;)

SA>And as in some versions of fundamentalist Christianity, the second
SA>coming will be accompanied by the usual trials and tribulations,
SA>death and destruction. Iranian journalist Hossein Bastani reported
SA>Ahmadinejad saying in official meetings that the hidden imam will
SA>reappear in two years.

For the Mahdi to appear, so too must the Dajjal.  As is well-known in
fido circles, I am he.  ;)

--Lee


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