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2005-09-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-09-06 00:51|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Arab world has been getting edgy about Iran. The Gulf sheiks are very worried about Iran's capability and the rhetoric about the "... government for the whole world under the leadership of the Mahdi, the Absent Imam..." is in-your-face heresy to the Sunnis. There may be a 'subclash' closer to home.

Posted by mhw 2005-09-06 08:27|| 2005-09-06 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 The Mahdi, the Absent Imam, is an understatement, a misunderstanding due to translation. This is the same as the Occult Imam, or Hidden Imam, regarded as the Islamic reincarnated Messiah. A charismatic tyrant that could inflame the Islamic masses to rise up and further the Islamic New World Order wherever they have colonized is the real crisis, not nuclear weapons, but they certainly up the ante. This multi-polar world sounds like something Al Qaeda has dreamed up and similar to Zawahiri's reference to a Golden Islamic Empire, living in Palestine with Jerusalem the capital. Some Absent Commandos should put an end to this before all civilization is caught in the clash and sucked up into a mushroom cloud.

Posted by Danielle 2005-09-06 17:17|| 2005-09-06 17:17|| Front Page Top

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