More insight into the Thug-In-Chief's apocalyptic fantasies. Toward the end of the article we hear that Ahmadinejad isn't really interested in religion at all, which I find highly doubtful (particularly since it coalesces so perfectly with what many Westerners, including Sydney Morning Herald reporters, would like to believe, since that makes him a man like them, someone they can deal with). Still, there is some interesting information here. From the Sydney Morning Herald, with thanks to JE:
THE key to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hardline policies may not be hidden in his revolutionary past, or in any of the nuclear facilities dispersed across Iran, but in a small farming village near the holy city of Qom.Here, in what was until only a few years ago a shabby local mosque, Iran's new radical Muslim leader has become the chief sponsor of a messianic cult whose massed followers pray each week for the end of the world as we know it.
Since coming to power last year Mr Ahmadinejad has given a reported $US20 million ($26 million) and personal supervision to turning the tiny Jamkaran mosque into a massive complex of prayer halls, minarets, car parks and ablutions. Once completed, it will cater in comfort to the tens of thousands of worshippers who flock here every Tuesday night, hoping for the reappearance of the Mahdi or "Hidden Imam", Shiite Islam's equivalent of the Messiah.
When Mr Ahmadinejad sent an 18-page letter to the White House last week lecturing the President, George Bush, on religion and morality, many questioned whether the Iranian President was a religious fanatic, a megalomaniac, or merely playing to an Islamic gallery. Jamkaran is a place to start looking for answers.
Read it all.
When is MTV gonna get this guy, Castro, Khaddafy, Chavez, Kim Jong Il, Farrakhan, and Charles Manson, put them in a house together and film it? Maybe get them all a job on a chicken farm?
*cue "Benny Hill" music as they're chasing poultry around the yard*
It's the Real World...(uh, which city is gonna take them?)
Tuesday night! Oh, man that's all you can eat for a 2 bucks at my local Fazoli's. I ain't giving that up to watch for the return of the Mahdi.
JanuaryMan, you Infidel pig-dog!
You didn't invite the Mahdi?
On second thought, probably a good idea. He'd likely stick you with the bill.
"Can you pick this up? We'll just call it...jizya! Yeah, that's it."
It's the Real World...(uh, which city is gonna take them?) - Eisenhund
Brilliant. As for the city, one could take a page from Vh1 and stick 'em in a mansion with Flavor Flav. (Disclaimer: I'm only aware of that due to the relatives I stayed with on Spring Break.)
Uh-huh. Sure.
Here is a very interesting article on the 12th imam. Ahmed-in-a-dinner-jacket is in contact with the "man in the well" daily.
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_15612.shtml
Waiting for Madhi...
Will the real Mahdi please stand up...
There is no real Mahdi, but the bet is, that someone will be appointed to that position soon.
The simpletons will be in awe, and do what Mahdi directs...expect more murders and atrocities.
Beasty Boy probably talks to Mahdi in the same way Mohammad talked to Allah...the fine art of hallucination. Psychotic expertise...are we having fun yet?
Caroline2...that was an interesting article on Mahdi...for more try:
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Spa/7220/al-mahdi.html
The "Mahdi" is going to have to be either a perfectly preserved 7 year old kid from the Middle Ages, circa 870 A.D. (who should then know classical Arabic, and be familar with the events of the the past millenia), or an unnaturally still-living 1000-plus year old coot.
If the Iranian Shi'ites don't come up with either version for their "Mahdi", it'll be a pious fraud.
Obviously, the "drop messages down it" well scenario is a perfect psyops opportunity. Rig a little speaker at the bottom and have the well start "talking" to Mahmoud and the mad mullahs as the "Voice of the Hidden Imam".
It could demand all Muslims to re-revert back to original Judaism, for starters.
(The real 12th Imam / "Mahdi"/ 7 year old kid- was probably thrown down a well by scoffing medieval Sunnis, and thereby "disappeared", less than miraculously.)
For a little backround on this religiously-common "endtimes" revenge fantasy SEE:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/SHIA/HIDDEN/.HTM
Sorry- one slash too many (a common Islamic problem) with the hyperlink above- it should be:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/SHIA/HIDDEN.HTM
duh_swami, that's a lot of reading. I will bookmark it for reading later, thanks, it looks interesting.