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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49576)1/6/2006 4:18:05 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Respond to of 50167
 
Iran leader's messianic end-times mission
Ahmadinejad raises concerns with mystical visions

Iranian President Mahmoud's Ahmadinejad's mystical pre-occupation with the coming of a Shiite Islamic messiah figure – the Mahdi – is raising concerns that a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic could trigger the kind of global conflagration he envisions will set the stage for the end of the world.

While Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been making headlines lately by questioning whether the Holocaust actually happened, by suggesting Israel should be moved to Europe and by demanding the Jewish state be wiped off the face of the earth, his apocalyptic religious zealotry has received less attention.

wnd.com



To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49576)1/7/2006 4:42:54 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
Biography of the Day

Emperor Hirohito—the longest-reigning monarch in Japanese history, who was enthroned in 1926, ruled during World War II and in democratic postwar Japan, and died this day in 1989—was succeeded by his son Akihito.