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The Apocalypse in Iraq
23 Sep 2006 06:23 pm
I mean literally. Juan Cole notes that Moqtadr al-Sadr is aligning himself with Ahmadinejad on the imminent return of the Twlefth Imam, a Shiite sign of the Apoclaypse. Money quote:
Al-Zaman reports that the young nationalist Shiite cleric maintained that the US Department of Defense has compiled an enormous file on the hidden Twelfth Imam, that is virtually complete save that it lacks his photograph.
[For Shiite Muslims, the Twelfth Imam or Imam Mahdi is a little like Jesus Christ for evangelical Christians. Shiites believe that the Imam was translated by God into a supernatural realm, from which he secretly rules the world and from which he will one day return to restore the world to justice.]
Al-Sadr said during his Friday prayer sermon in Kufa that "The United States has been preparing for ten years a rapid reaction force against the awaited Imam Mahdi and the US provoked the Gulf War so as to fill the region with military outposts for this purpose."
The good news is: al-Sadr urged non-violent resistance to the U.S. Heh.
(Photo: Ali Jarekji/Reuters.)
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