"Ayatollah Nouri-Hamedani: 'Fight the Jews and Vanquish Them so as to Hasten the Coming of the Hidden Imam,'" from MEMRI, with thanks to Rebecca Bynum:
The official Iranian news agency Fars, which is close to the conservative circles in Iran, recently published a statement by Ayatollah Hossein Nouri-Hamedani, one of the Iranian regime's leading religious authorities, in which he advocates fighting the Jews in order to prepare the ground and to hasten the advent of the Hidden Imam, the Messiah according to Shiite belief.It should be noted that the Fars news agency took the report off its web site several hours after its publication, and other Iranian media outlets close to the conservatives refrained from citing it...
Prior to the Advent of the Hidden Imam, Arrogance and Colonialism Rule the World
"Fars news agency: Ayatollah Nouri-Hamedani, discussing [Shi'ite] religious texts, said: 'One should fight the Jews and vanquish them so that the conditions for the advent of the Hidden Imam be met.' According to the Fars news agency's report, Ayatollah Nouri-Hamedani met with members of the Mahdaviyat Studies Institute. He praised the institute's work and demanded that the religious seminaries in Qom also do more to research religious texts and hadith concerning the Hidden Imam...
"Nouri-Hamedani said that the texts concerning the end of days are rife with allusions and hidden meanings. He asked the researchers to devote their efforts to elucidating these texts. He noted: 'In the texts it is told that the Hidden Imam will remove the yoke of humiliation from mankind's neck. Therefore it is clear that prior to the advent of the Hidden Imam, Arrogance [a common epithet for Western powers, especially the U.S.A.] and colonialism rule the world.'
The Jews Have Hoarded All the Wealth in One Place, and All the World are Their Slaves
"According to this religious authority, 'at present the Jews' policies threaten us. One should explain in the clearest terms the danger the Jews pose to the [Iranian] people and to the Muslims. Ever since Islam's appearance, the group that expressed fierce opposition to Islam - and still acts in this fashion - were the Jews. They were involved in the Khaybar, Uhud, and Ahzab wars.' He added: 'Already from the beginning the Jews wanted to hoard the world's goods in [their] greed and voracity. They always worked in important professions and now they have hoarded all of the wealth in one place. And all of the world, especially America and Europe, are their slaves.'"...
"The revelation of the culture of Jihad and martyrdom in the country [Iran] struck world Arrogance [i.e., the U.S. and the Western powers] with dread. The existence of such a spirit among our youth led to world Arrogance's not daring to infringe on our borders... History shows that every people that lost the culture of Jihad and martyrdom were brought down."
Whoops! It sounds as if the Ayatollah is talking about himself and other Muslims: "History shows that every people that lost the culture of jihad and martyrdom were brought down."
That should read: History shows that every people that lost its culture to jihad and martyrdom were brought down ... into slavery, dhimmitude, or annihilation. Human lives may go on but the culture must die when Islam comes to town!
If you want goods, riches, and services, you must become productive. Memorizing the Koran won't get you that. Prayer five times a day won't get you that nor will studying Islam at the expense of useful skills, and I don't mean the creation of guns and other weapons.
Evil totalitarian Mark 1: "Fight the beorgesoie and vanquish them so as to hasten the coming of the socialist workers paradise."
Evil totalitarian Mark 2: "Fight the Jews and vanquish them so as to hasten the coming of the national socialist thousand year reich"
Evil totalitarian Mark 3: "Fight the Jews and Vanquish Them so as to Hasten the Coming of the Hidden Imam."
Hey..they all sound the same to me. Must shut up or someone will call me racist.
" They always worked in important professions "
Yes, the Jews have always been successful people. Why? Because they have valued education, and strong community values. Not to mention the blessings of G-D. They haven't spent all their time figuring out how to torture and maim everyone around them.
Usefull people???.....gee i think the biggest export of Iran is pistachios or some other nut.....sheesh, the world surely couldnt carry on without those nuts!!!.....and it figures that one of the worlds most oppressive regimes would produce"nuts"....and i cant think of any Muslim person in modern times who has actually come up with some sort of usefull product that helps all of mankind....they are a useless people.....a welfare people is what they truly are....they live off of what the rest of the world produces since they dont produce anything themselves...oh, they produce poppyseeds.....how usefull, an illegal drug is made from that......useless people, useless countries.....and they wonder why the rest of the world looks at them{Muslim} they way we do.....nuff said
Just the usual Jew hating, war mongering drivel one expects from some useless Muslim mullah-swine!
The "hidden Imam"...that must be the famous Al-Mahdi. He's hidden because he is supposed to be invisible at this time. He will appear and rally a huge army of muslim crazy's in Afghanistan, who will then ride out and conquor the world, in the name of Islam.
Well I got news for you expectant muslims...Al-Mahdi aint comming. He fell in love with a hooker in Lodi, California, USA. Missed his bus to Afghanistan, and has decided to stay with the prostitute. He has a strong streak of mohammad in him...sex comes first...
SECRET MESSAGE FROM THE HIDDEN IMAM-
I've changed my mind.
Jews are okay. They're just our older cousins.
Time to follow the words of the prophet before Mohammad, the transitional Jew/Christian Jesus, and love thy enemies and do good to those who treat you spitefully.
Hate, I've figured out, is un-Islamic.
I'll be coming back to Earth when you start behaving with kindness and start treating all of God's creatures equally, with compassion, decency and empathy.
As the other prophet put it so well:
"But greatest of these is love."
But Shurki tells us that that mean ol' MEMRI's biased and anti-islamic. Gee, how can that be, when they record, translate and broadcast such islamic messages as:
"According to this religious authority, 'at present the Jews' policies threaten us. One should explain in the clearest terms the danger the Jews pose to the [Iranian] people and to the Muslims. Ever since Islam's appearance, the group that expressed fierce opposition to Islam - and still acts in this fashion - were the Jews. They were involved in the Khaybar, Uhud, and Ahzab wars.' He added: 'Already from the beginning the Jews wanted to hoard the world's goods in [their] greed and voracity. They always worked in important professions and now they have hoarded all of the wealth in one place. And all of the world, especially America and Europe, are their slaves.'"...
But then again, Shurki believes all that himself. I can see why he wouldn't want to join in on this discussion.
Geoff
Hate is the lubricant of the killing machine that is the REAL face of Islam.
It follows therefore that Nothing is MORE Islamic and essential to Islam's existence than hatred. Because hatred facilitates the killing which is Islam's sole purpose and foundation: HUMAN SACRIFICE dressed up to resemble something from a Judeo-Christian religion (which under closer scrutiny it can clearly be seen as being DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO). 'Abrahamic.'
Islam has understood well how to turn human beings into vengeful,soulless slaughtering 'killer zombies'. And that is because Islam's founders designed Islam to kill people -- and not through an unfortunate accident of history caused by fanatical tyrants who are guilty of 'hijacking' it.
How on EARTH CAN I SAY SUCH A THING? Easily and without fear of contradiction. The Middle East as is well known has been one of the world's cradles of human sacrifice. As it happens the Jews worship a deity that has made a point of outlawing killing of humans for any purpose other than self-defense; as do Christians.
Now, what happens when a society that worhips a being that has outlawed killing of humans for anything other than self-defense collides with a society that practices MANDATORY KILLING OF HUMAN BEINGS?
The human sacrifice-practicing society would respond by of course eating alive the society that has forbidden killing of human outside of self-defense. We can cleary observe that the Muslims are former and the Jews are the latter. Islam can also clearly be seen as the mechanism by which human sacrifice practicers are eating the remainder of humanity-- one bomb at a time, one Iranian mullah at a time, one bin Looney Tunes at a time, one Moussaouai at a time, one 9-11 at a time.
It is interesting to note that imams across the world have been referring to caucasian Americans in mosque services as 'white meat.' This kind of talk was probably prevalent among Aztecs, Incas, or Mayans. And it reeks of human sacrifice.
These mullahs are "Exhibit A." I rest my case.
Pythagoras-
You have triangulated on the problem perfectly.
As the old post-Civil War freethinker Colonel Robert Ingersoll put it (in his speech on The Declaration of Independence):
" Our fathers founded the first secular government that ever was founded in this world. Recollect that... the first government that said: every church... every religion has exactly the same rights, and no more. In other words, our fathers were the first men who had the sense, who had the genius, to know that no church should be allowed to have a sword; that it should only be allowed to exert its moral influence... The religion that has to be supported by Law has no value... The religious argument that has to be backed up by a rifle is not worth making. A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered... Love need not carry knives and revolvers."
Until Islam grasps this, its loses everything else.
Including its mind.