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2004-04-08 Terror Networks
Mahdi-mania: Is bin Laden the ’Mahdi’? (Reprint)
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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-04-08 12:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [11125 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Come on. EVERYBODY knows that the Mahdi lives on the planet Dune. "The spice must flow . . ." Oh, never mind. Wrong blog.
Posted by ex-lib 2004-04-08 1:03:36 AM||   2004-04-08 1:03:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The word is the Mahdi is staying at The Ritz have a few drinks, while the brianwashed jihad boys are meeting 72...72 year old ladies :)
Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-04-08 1:07:06 AM||   2004-04-08 1:07:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Dr. Furnish, Phd: "If the claim [that OBL is the Mahdi]were believable to the Islamic world, then the U.S. could no longer claim to be fighting terrorism alone.... Indeed, it would become a global religious conflict."

Lord Kitchener: "One good way to disabuse the Islamic world of such an absurd delusion, is to find their "Mahdi" , cut off his nead, and throw his decapitated body into the nearest river-- worked for me!"

Seriously, folks, the best way to prove that some guy ain't the Mahdi is by giving him a good, public whupping. And seems to me we are well on our way to doing that to OBL-- if he isn't already a stain in some cave somewhere.

Posted by WUZZALIB  2004-04-08 1:16:04 AM||   2004-04-08 1:16:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 ...IIRC, this theory made an appearance of sorts not long after 911 - that supposedly, after OBL defeated us in Afghanistan, he was going to declare that he was the Mahdi. Of course, the way these folks think - and I wish this was a joke - there will be claims that OBL really IS the Mahdi...because he's vanished.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-04-08 2:01:31 AM||   2004-04-08 2:01:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 And here I thought that Lord Lawrence Olivier was the Mahdi! I mean his followers killed Charlton Heston, didn't they? No mean feat, methinks...
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p.s. Quiz time: Was Chuck Heston more endangered by General Ursus or the Mahdi?
Posted by borgboy 2004-04-08 2:19:33 AM||   2004-04-08 2:19:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I've long believed that rather than 9/11 being a high tech razzia (tribal raid), it was an attempt to provoke an eschatological event. In other words, OBL and the cult that surrounds him hoped to force Allah to intervene decisively in world affairs. The OBL cult felt that by attacking the US savagely, they would force us to use our weapons of last resort, nukes. And since Allah would never allow the destruction of the Ummah, he would intervene, and the End Times sequence would begin. Crazy? Yes. But then we are dealing with crazy people.
Posted by 11A5S 2004-04-08 9:48:46 AM||   2004-04-08 9:48:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd like to see the moongod stop a B-2 on it's way to turn mecca into a radioactive waste land. When the 'god' of the pedophile prophet doesn't stop the destruction of his holiest place, do you think the muslims will realize they worship a false god?
Posted by AllahHateMe 2004-04-08 10:03:35 AM||   2004-04-08 10:03:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 do you think the muslims will realize they worship a false god?

-nah, they'll just say he's blaming them for not killing enough joooos and infidels.
Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-08 10:06:14 AM||   2004-04-08 10:06:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 11a5S -actually there is (or are said to be - ive never met one) a tiny group of Jews (VERY tiny, thank goodness) who beleive in the same logic. Their plan - destroy the mosques on the Temple Mount. This would lead to a global muslim war on Israel, with Israel lacking Western support. Since G-d would not allow the destruction of his people, he would be forced to intervene, and the end times would begin. This is called "forcing the end" and is generally considered heretical by normative beleivers.
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-04-08 10:08:19 AM||   2004-04-08 10:08:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Thanks LH. I guess there's always been nuts like this loose in the world. I've read similar things about some Christian groups and then there is Aum Shinkyo (sp?) in Japan. However, until recently we didn't have A.Q. Khan selling nuke manufacturing equipment from catalogs. Nor did we have scientists synthesizing polio viruses from reagents in a lab. I think that I need to get drunk this weekend.
Posted by 11A5S 2004-04-08 10:25:53 AM||   2004-04-08 10:25:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 11A5S-
Exactly what I'd heard, and when you add the OBL=Mahdi story, it makes you wonder what September 12th would have looked like if the President had turned the keys the morning of the 11th.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-04-08 11:53:09 AM||   2004-04-08 11:53:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Ah yes, immanentizing the Eschaton again, are we? That trick NEVER works. Actually, there's some nutbag out there (shareintl.org) who's been claiming (via Benjamin Creme) to be the Mahdi for about 20 years now. One of them must be wrong.
Posted by Xbalanke  2004-04-08 2:04:51 PM||   2004-04-08 2:04:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Mike: I honestly think that there were a lot of cells out there with their black flags ready to go on 9/12. What pity that we had to disappoint them [wolfish grin].

Xbalanke: You got at real honest guffaw out of me with that one. Not an Internet courtesy LOL, but the real thing.
Posted by 11A5S 2004-04-08 2:31:25 PM||   2004-04-08 2:31:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Was Chuck Heston more endangered by General Ursus or the Mahdi?

Neither: Mathias and the Family
Posted by Frank G  2004-04-08 2:38:47 PM||   2004-04-08 2:38:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Frank G: You beat me to it! Loved The Omega Man.
Posted by BH  2004-04-08 3:33:42 PM||   2004-04-08 3:33:42 PM|| Front Page Top

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