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Conflicts in the Middle East
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Walkinghairball
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Time for something that's concerning me (wacko kook that I am). This is from the Wall Street Journal:
From Front Page Magazine last month:What is the significance of Aug. 22? 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.
A passage from the Ayatollah Khomeini, quoted in an 11th-grade Iranian schoolbook, is revealing. "I am decisively announcing to the whole world that if the world-devourers [i.e., the infidel powers] wish to stand against our religion, we will stand against their whole world and will not cease until the annihilation of all them. Either we all become free, or we will go to the greater freedom which is martyrdom. Either we shake one another's hands in joy at the victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours."
There's that date again.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has frustrated Western officials by refusing to reply to their offer of various incentives in exchange for Iran?s discarding its nuclear program until August 22. The Western governments had asked Ahmadinejad to reply by June 29; why would Tehran need two extra months?
There's a lot more, but you get the gist of it. What do you guys think? Is Iran planning to light up the night sky on August 22nd?Farid Ghadry, the president of the Reform Party of Syria, has offered a provocative explanation for this delay. He asserts that the Supreme National Security Council of Iran chose the August 22 date ?for a very precise reason. August 21, 2006 (Rajab 27, 1427) is known in the Islamic calendar as the Night of the Sira?a and Miira?aj, the night Prophet Mohammed (saas) ascended to heaven from the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on a Bourak (Half animal, half man), while a great light lit-up the night sky, and visited Heaven and Hell also Beit al-Saada and Beit al-Shaqaa (House of Happiness and House of Misery) and then descended back to Mecca.??
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And now, according to Ghadry, Ahmadinejad is planning an illumination of the night sky over Jerusalem to rival the one that greeted the Prophet of Islam on his journey. What the Iranian President, he says, is ?promising the world by August 22 is the light in the sky over the Aqsa Mosque that took place the night before. That is his answer to the package of incentives the international community offered Iran on June 6.?
Certainly a nuclear attack on Jerusalem or even an all-out conventional assault against Israel by Iran would be consistent with Ahmadinejad?s oft-repeated denials of Israel?s right to exist and recent predictions that its demise was at hand. He hinted at the use of nuclear weapons in his phrasing when he said that Israel ?pushed the button of its own destruction? by finally retaliating against Hizballah?s relentless rocket barrage from south Lebanon.
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I think that's part of the prophecy... that they suffer terrible persecution before the messiah comes.Walkinghairball wrote:Do they understand the magnitude of that senerio?
All non muslim countries would have to stand together and bomb Iran into the stoneage. (Just a possible senerio mind you)
That's the difference between dealing with Iran now and dealing with the Soviets in the 80's. They knew that whatever they did to us would be reciprocated, and that kept the "peace". But with Iran, that's not a deterrent.
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Walkinghairball
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This is one of those things that really makes you think.
Are they just posturing? Are they seriously thinking of starting WWIII? Are we just freaking out over nothing and they are all laughing at us?
I know this though: if they do decide to light up the sky over Jerusalem with bombs, we won't be celebrating Alex's birthday the way we did last year.
Are they just posturing? Are they seriously thinking of starting WWIII? Are we just freaking out over nothing and they are all laughing at us?
I know this though: if they do decide to light up the sky over Jerusalem with bombs, we won't be celebrating Alex's birthday the way we did last year.
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