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Islam's pocalyptic prophecies

Iraq, Iran, Global Warming and The Apocalypse

By David J. Jonsson

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Islam has many apocalyptic prophecies; thisaspect of Islam contributes to the driving force of Islam. Iran joined by Syriawants to end the democratic experiment in Iraq. Iranian money, weapons andexpertise are used by terrorists to kill Americans in Iraq. Iran's support ofHamas disrupts Palestinian peace efforts. Hezbollah, a group also backed byIran and Syria, seeks to destabilize Lebanese democracy and restart a border warwith Israel. Iran which denies that a European Holocaust ever took place is nowplanning to create a second Holocaust in Europe and in the U.S. with thedevelopment of nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver the weapons.

Only the sustained American policy ofostracizing Iran and Syria, galvanizing the international community to enforcefinancial and trading sanctions, supporting Iranian and Syrian reformers, andkeeping all options for war on the table including a high-profile presence inthe area offers any hope containing a potential holocaust.

In order to understand the issues faced by theAdministration it is necessary to review history and look at the many factorsthat are currently leading to the almost intractable solution to the crisisdeveloping in the Middle East. The solution requires thinking outside thecurrent events in Iraq. It requires abandoning the 'silo' approach ofaddressing foreign policy, energy, environment--Global Warming, homelandsecurity, and defense as separate issues. The solution also requires theintegration of commercial/business and government sectors in the solution.Without addressing the geopolitical ramifications to the U.S., EU, Russia andChina beyond the immediate crisis in Iraq and Iran; a solution cannot be found.

Exclusively increasing military strength,diplomacy or withdrawing from Iraq will not defer or result in a lasting peace.Whatever way the Iran and Iraq crisis is resolved, it will lead to a majorshift in the geopolitical landscape. The goal is to have a soft landing. Thiswill require sacrifice, compromise but not appeasement, and most importantlyprioritizing the most important elements of our culture – faith, freedom,liberty, and democracy, as we know it in America. Decision time is fastapproaching. Unfortunately both Iranand the U.S. may be underestimating the power of the other side andoverestimating their own. Iran thinks it has a lot of deterrents, in Iraq andelsewhere, and in the armed forces - and it sees the US bogged down in Iraq,Washington divided and public opinion in the Muslim world opposed to war.

We will discuss how these elements are directlyinterrelated and suggest potential solutions for consideration.

  1. The Power of Apocalyptic Teaching

  2. Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu Comments on theSimularity to Events Preceding World War ll

  3. Kofi Annan Learns of the Intent of Iran

  4. Persia is an Ancient Country with a Great Tradition

  5. Germany's Four-Year Plan a Precursorfor World War ll

  6. Implications of theImmanent Return of the Twelfth Imam

  7. The Prophetic Messages of Christianity andIslam

  8. Shiite and Sunni Apocalyptic Teaching

  9. The Nuclear Crisis with Iran Continues

  10. The Need for Addressing the Global Risk

The Power of Apocalyptic Teaching

There is power in apocalypse. Fundamentally,the belief in the imminent end of the world changes people and gives them thestrength of an absolute conviction that God is on the side of the believer, avery definite goal, and the impetus to excel above and beyond their ordinaryabilities. All three of these components are present in a truly apocalypticgroup and serve to mold it together into a possibly, though not necessarily,destructive organism, to which the outside world is an enemy to be conqueredand dominated. While all of the above is well known and obvious after studyingany of the apocalyptic groups, the question before us is: Is Islam anapocalyptic faith, and if it is, then what were and still are the ramificationsfor the outside world? How does the Global Warming Apocalypse relate? Theideologies are political religions thatsubstitute the state for divine reality. Pantheist-environmentalism isapocalyptic and is a form of Gnosticism. This religion worships mother earthand its members proudly slander Jesus the Messiah and Christian sexual morals.

Global Warming Apocalypse

Ironically, the Hedonistic Left led by ex-President Al Goresupports another doctrine of apocalypses that is the Global Warming Apocalypse.Al Gore has been busy returning global warming to center stage with terrifyingwarnings of disaster with his best-selling book, An Inconvenient Truth, and the popular companion documentary. This sameleft has become key participants in the Leftist/Marxist – IslamistAlliance. This is a little hard to take from the global warming alarmists,given that they normally support live-for-today hedonism. It is furtherdifficult in that the implementation of Shariah law would be the end for their hedonism andpotentially their lives. Can a decadent elite which ushered in decades ofself-indulgent, drugs-and-promiscuity-laden lifestyles credibly warn of "deathand destruction," civilizational collapse and the need for abstemiousness? EllenGoodman of the Boston Globehas now famously compared global warming skeptics to Holocaust deniers,bringing to bear a stern moral certainty about protecting the earth she can'tfind in her heart for the protection of unborn children. Like Marxism, thisGlobal Warming Apocalypse pronouncement is supposed to sustain civilization notthrough individual virtue but through regulation and centralized planning.Their elite whose goodness is measured not by their own moral behavior but bythe brilliance of their statist schemes will apparently save the earth. Andthrough the Leftist/Marxist – Islamist Alliance they promote appeasementwith the vary forces seeking their own destruction.

The Hedonistic Left revolutionaries have a vision of the newand perfect world, the beginning of a new age when all would be different. Thehedonistic left promotes ideologies which encompass political secularreligions--the belief in the spirit of Gaia--the Mother Earthand that substitutes the state for divine reality.

MauriceStrong previously a senior advisor to United Nations' Secretary GeneralKofi Annan is also a key participant with his involvement in the U.N. EducationScientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Strong's most significant roleat the U.N. to-date has been his position as Secretary General of the 1992 U.N.Conference on the Environment and Development, the Rio Earth Summit. At thecore of the UN-NGO alliance is Maurice Strong, a multimillionaire Canadian-bornbusinessman who has devoted much of the last 30 years to orchestrating thealliance's "global governance" campaign. Through his work in UNESCO,Strong promotes Gaia, the Earth God, among the world's youth. Strong is also apart of The Temple of Understanding in New York a global interfaithorganization with NGO consultative status with the United Nations Economic andSocial Council and has had representation at all of the major internationalconferences. He uses The Temple to encourage Americans concerned about theenvironment to replace Christianity with the worship of "motherearth." See also my article: Axis of Appeasement-- The Inconvenient Truth

What Part Will Religion Play in Emerging Global Warming Struggles?

It is important to review the history of Global Warming Apocalypsedevelopment.

The Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders onHuman Survival began in October 1985. While the United Nations was celebratingits 40th anniversary, ten "spiritual leaders," two each from theworld's five major religions, and eight elected officials from parliaments onfive continents, met together at psychology's New Age center in Tarrytown, NewYork to explore ideas for ecological salvation and world peace. Out of thismeeting grew a working partnership between the world's religious and politicalleaders--something which had been unthinkable since ancient Rome.

The politicians belonged to the Global Committee ofParliamentarians on Population and Development. The religious leaders had beeninvited by the Temple of Understanding, long headquartered at the then"Very Reverend" James Parks Morton's infamous Cathedral of St. Johnthe Divine in New York City. As early as 1975 the Temple (Morton waspresident), known as "the spiritual UN," had sponsored a week-long"Spiritual Summit Conference" which culminated in "addresses atthe United Nations by representatives of five major faiths," with MotherTeresa as the keynote speaker.

Bishop Moore transformed the Cathedral of St. John theDivine into a Gnostic stronghold for such organizations as: The Lucis Trust,founded in 1922 by Alice Bailey, a disciple of Theosophist Madame HelenaBlavatsky. Originally named the Lucifer Trust, it became a mother institutionof the modern New Age movement. Moore, who entered the 1970s "peacemovement" by visiting with the Vietcong-controlled, underground peacemovement in Vietnam, had by 1983 joined with the pro-terrorist Institute forPolicy Studies and the U.S.A.-Canada Institute of the U.S.S.R. Academy ofSciences, to mobilize the American peace movement to stop the Strategic DefenseInitiative. Thirty top Soviet intelligence officers, who were joined by BishopMoore, gave marching orders to the American peace leadership to this effect inMinneapolis, Minnesota in 1983.

In April 1988 the UN Global Forum on Human Survival held in Oxford, England was Co-sponsoredby the Temple of Understanding and the UN Committee on Parliamentarians andPopulation, chaired by James Parks Morton. , Gaia scientist JamesLovelock [Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock], was the featured speaker. It broughttogether about 200 spiritual and legislative leaders from 52 countries."For five days parliamentarians and cabinet members met with cardinals,swamis, bishops, rabbis, imams, monks....Among them: the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa,the Archbishop of Canterbury...Cardinal Koenig of Vienna...Carl Sagan,Vice-Chairman of the Soviet Academy of Sciences Evguenij Velikhov, CosmonautValentina Tereshkova." The conference was covered by media teams from 35countries. The same year the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and theUnited Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change (IPCC)

The Global Forum on Human Survival held in Moscow January15-19, 1990 was, hosted by Mikhail Gorbachev and Javier Perez de Cuellar,chaired by James Parks Morton. Other co-hosts included what the program calleda "unique alliance": "the Supreme Soviet, the country's firstfreely elected parliament; all faith communities of the USSR, coordinated bythe Russian Orthodox Church; the USSR Academy of Sciences; and theInternational Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity."Moscow saw more than 1,000 participants from 83 countries call for a "newplanetary perspective" involving a "new spiritual and ethical basisfor human activities on earth." In his address to the Forum, MikhailGorbachev called it "a major step in the ecological consciousness ofhumanity." He drew cheers from delegates when he pledged "to bannuclear tests completely, for all times, and at any moment, if the U.S. doesthe same...[and] to open our territory for inspection...." See also myarticle: NuclearProliferation--Options In A Perfect Storm.

Laying the foundation for the coming world religion,ecological concerns are being expressed increasingly in pantheistic/New Ageterms as though the universe were a living and even conscious entity (the Gaiahypothesis) with whom we must make peace and live in harmony. Calling spirituality "common to all humanity," New Agephysicist Fritjof Capra defined it at the Moscow Global Forum as "theexperience of being connected to the cosmos as a whole...a sense of belongingthat gives meaning to life." Capra recently founded The Elmwood Institute,dedicated to "the convergence of politics, ecology and spirituality."

In his keynote speech at Moscow, then U.S. Senator Al Goredeclared: "I do not see how the environmental problem can be solvedwithout reference to spiritual values found in every faith." He is not referring to biblical Christianity, but to anecumenical world "spirituality" based upon what he called a "newfaith in the future of life on earth...[providing] higher values in the conductof human affairs." The final "Moscow Declaration" called for"a global council of spiritual leaders" and the "creation of aninter-faith prayer...." It declared, "We must find a new spiritualand ethical basis for human activities on Earth: Humankind must enter into anew communion with nature...."

Strong is also associated with the United Religions Initiative (URI), a movement to"...promote an enduring, daily, interfaith cooperation, to end religiouslymotivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for theearth and all living beings." The founding Trustee andPresident is The Rt. Rev. William E. Swing-Episcopal Bishop of California. Naturally, interfaithcooperation implies a one world religion. A one world secular, godless religionfor a one world government is the objective.

Maurice Strong stated "The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in factbecome like the Ten Commandments, like the Universal Declaration of HumanRights."  For supporters of the URIan ecumenical union of all religions is seen to be essential, for there can beno political peace without religious peace as well.

U.S. taxpayers are being forced to subsidize a new form ofstate religion which holds that natural resources have to be protected for thesake of Gaia, a so-called Earth spirit. This religious movement, which hascult-like qualities, is being promoted by leading figures and organizationssuch as Vice President Albert Gore, broadcaster Ted Turner, and the UnitedNations.

The Judeo-Christian culture and religion must be destroyedand replaced by the new one-world religion as a precursor for fall of the Westand usher in the Islamic kingdom of God on Earth. The new world order will be aglobal community where our spiritual lives and our economic, legal, andgovernmental systems will be dictated to us all in the name of the greatergood.  All of these forces, in the form of NGO's, business, non-profitorganizations, media, academia, and New Age cults will be working closely withthe United Nations to usher in the New Age. Right under our noses the way isbeing paved for the prophesied one world religion and huge armies of volunteersare being amassed to usher it in.

The transformation brought about by the GlobalWarming doctrines had a number of consequences:

  • 1.Thepower of the ruling elite rested in Environmentalism ideology as the mainsource of legitimacy.

  • 2. Itincreased the role of Environmentalism ideology (Worship of Gaia) in the country'sinternal and international politics. 

  • 3. Environmentalistrevolutionaries had a vision of a new and perfect world, a New Word Order thebeginning of an age when all would be different.

    The elite are careful about letting Westernersknow what their real goal is.

    The Modern Apocalyptic Muslim

    A grasp of history is crucial to the understanding of themodern apocalyptic Muslim, because of the living nature of this past for him.Therefore, our discussion must start at the dawn of Muslim history. Many theorieshave been proposed to explain the phenomenal Muslim conquest of the entireancient world, from Tours in France to the borders of China in Central Asia, during the period of acentury. Some scholars dismiss the idea that religious belief was a primary oreven a secondary contributing factor in these conquests. Yet this prejudice isvery damaging to our present-day understanding, if only because contemporaryMuslims themselves believe that theirabsolute faith in Allah and the unifying nature of Islam are the most importantreasons for their successes. Here, one must read between the lines andunderstand that absolute faith and unity was not enough to embark on thejihad. There had to be a thirdcomponent to this equation: the imperative to conquer the world before theexpected Hour of Judgment. This is the component that will interest us here.

    Itis not as important for us to know what impelled this conquest historically, asto understand how the modern Muslim feels about his history. This conquest,called the jihad, is closely connectedin the sources to apocalyptic beliefs. In this regard, a tradition should bequoted: Behold! God sent me [the Prophet Muhammad] with a sword, justbefore the Hour [of Judgment], and placed my daily sustenance beneath theshadow of my spear, and humiliation and contempt upon those who oppose me. Muslims, according to this understanding, did nottry to conquer the world for the sake of domination, but because God commandedthem to do it before the imminent end of the world.

    In Islam we have the first example of what anapocalyptic group can achieve when given a limited time frame to accomplish animpossible task: world conquest. They almost made it. Since the mostrevolutionary idea present in fundamentalist Islam is that modern Muslims arereenacting the situation of the Prophet Muhammad during the seventh century andthat all of the rest of the world, including the so-called Muslim countries,are infidel. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the feeling that anapocalyptic-jihad is necessary to correct things is very strong.

    Likudleader Benjamin Netanyahu Comments on the Similarity to Events Preceding WorldWar ll

    Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu on November 13,2006 drew a direct analogy between Iran and Nazi Germany.

    "It's 1938 and Iran is Germany. And Iran isracing to arm itself with atomic bombs," Netanyahu told delegates to the annualUnited Jewish Communities General Assembly, repeating the line several times,like a chorus, during his address. "Believe him and stop him," the oppositionleader said of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "This is what we must do.Everything else pales before this."

    "Bernard Lewis, the influential Princetonscholar of Islam, claimed earlier Mr. Ahmadinejad and a powerful coterie aroundhim actually wanted to provoke nuclear conflict as a means of hastening thearrival of the Mahdi, the Muslim messiah. "It would seem that he and hisimmediate circle really believe that the apocalyptic age is now," he told anaudience at Tel Aviv University." ... "Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies set the toneat the turn of the year with publication of its annual strategic balance, inwhich it warned: "Time is working in Iran's favor and, barring military action,Iran's possession of nuclear weapons is only a matter of time."Reference: Financial Times, January 12, 2007, Israelbraced for action.

    While Iran is developing WMD and formingalliances throughout the world including Cuba just 90 miles off the coast ofAmerica, Russia and China are providing arms for the alliance and equallyimportant Russia is finalizing the energy noose around Europe. The Islamistsalong with their Leftist/Marxist alliance partners meanwhile are quietlyassuming key positions in the governments, the media and even financialinstitutions. See also : IslamicEconomics and the Final Jihad: The Muslim Brotherhood to the Leftist/Marxist -Islamist Alliance by David J. Jonsson

    In the article of August 7: The Origins ofthe Next Great War are Visible I commented:

    "With every passing year following theevents of 9/11 the rise of Leftist/Marxist-Islamist Alliance has increasedglobal instability. By the beginning of 2006, nearly all the combustibleingredients–far bigger in scale than those leading to World Wars 1 and 11and the Gulf Wars of 1991 or 2003–were in place."

    KofiAnnan Learns of the Intent of Iran

    In early September of 2006, as Kofi Annan passedthrough the Middle East on a farewell journey as United Nations secretarygeneral, he made a stop in Tehran. There, in a meeting with MahmoudAhmadinejad, Iran's president, he heard something startling.

    As later recounted to the New York Times by anAnnan aide, Ahmadinejad told Annan that though Britain and the United Stateshad won the last world war; Iran would win the next. "It wasn't the tone andthe content that stunned us," the aide told the Times. "It was the fact that hetalked like he meant it and believed it." After all, Annan and his colleagueshadn't realized there would be a next world war.

    The War has Already Begun

    In the eyes of the Ahmadinejad and hissupporters, however, that war has already begun. In their way of thinking,radical Islamists have already brought the collapse of one superpower (theSoviet Union, which they believe fell because of the Afghan war) and are onroute to victory in Europe. America is next.

    The good news about the Iranian Ahmadinejad'swild rhetoric is that he is not a particularly important figure in Iran'speculiar system in which the revolutionary institutions matter more than thestate. Real power is wielded by the hard-line clerics, especially SupremeLeader Ayatalloh Ali Khamenei, whose title accurately reflects his uncheckedauthority.

    The post of Supreme Leader is literally theLeader of the Revolution. Leadership Authority, or Val-ye Faqh or Guardian Jurisprudent was created in theconstitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the highest-ranking politicaland religious authority of the nation. The Assemblyof Experts appoints the Supreme Leader and is also in charge of overseeingthe Supreme Leader and has the power to dismiss and replace him at any time.Members are elected for an eight year term. Only clerics can join the assemblyand candidates for election are vetted by the Guardian Council.

    HashemiRafsanjani is the Expediency Council Chairman. ExpediencyDiscernment Council of the System is an unelected establishment in the Constitutionof Islamic Republic of Iran created on 6 February 1988. Its purpose is toresolve differences or conflicts between the Majlis and the Councilof Guardians [The most influential body in Iran.], and also to serve as aconsultative council to the Supreme Leader.The Guardian Council of the Constitution isan unelected high chamber within the constitution of the Islamic Republic ofIran. It has legislative, judicial, and electoral powers. This reflects thedifference between the Islamic Republic of Iran and democratic states, such asthe United States, which have separation of the branches of government.Guardian council represents the official will of the Supreme Leader.

    The transformation brought about by the IranianRevolution of 1979 had a number of consequences:

  • Thepower of the ruling elite rested in Islamic ideology as the main source oflegitimacy.

  • Itincreased the role of Islamic ideology in the country's internal andinternational politics. 

  • Islamicrevolutionaries had a vision of a new and perfect world, the beginning of anage when all would be different.

    The bad news is that Khamenei and the otherhard-line clerics entirely agree with Ahmadinezhad's dangerous views. They arejust more careful about letting Westerners know what they really think.

    To audiences in the Middle East, Khamenei ismore open. He has long met with Holocaust deniers and warmly endorsed theirdisgusting lies. In Persian, he regularly calls the state of Israel a "cancer"that must be cut out and urges Muslims never to accept the existence of theJewish state. He has been the force behind Iran's longstanding arms supplies toLebanon's Hezbollah terrorist group, and he has constantly urged that group tokeep up the fight against Israel no matter what concessions Israel might make.He has pushed Iran to provide more support for Hamas in the West Bank and Gazabecause of the group's refusal to accept the state of Israel. Iran has pledgedto give Hamas $250 million this year, about half of which has been delivered,making Iran by far the largest funder of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.

    According to a report in the Iran News &Cultural Journal of January 6, Iran's Supreme Mullah Leader Will Be Dead Soon.   "Iran'sSupreme MullahLeader, Ali Khamenei is seriously ill and will have to be replaced in thecoming months, as he is no longer capable of holding office, according toAssembly of Experts member mullah Nasseri. The powerful mullah body appoints and oversees the country's supremeleader. "AyatollahSeyyed Ali Khamenei is gravely ill - he can no longer see very well, hasdifficulty hearing, and is no longer able to properly perform his duties,"Nasseri told a women's group."

    "The country's supreme leader since 1989,Khamenei succeeded the founder of the IslamicRepublic of Iran, infamous mullah Khomeini,as president in 1981 and served two terms. His death or removal from office bythe Assembly of Experts will trigger a power struggle within the mullahs'regime, according to observers."

    "The names of three possible successors toKhamenei are currently on the lips of Iranians: Khamenei's son, Mojtaba; Iran'sformer reformist president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani-Expediency CouncilChairman; and Gholam Ali Mesbah Yazdi, the ultra-conservative ayatollah who isconsidered the spiritual father of Iran's current hard-line president, MahmoudAhmadinejad."

    As commentedby Haaretz, January 5, 2007, BringingAhmadinejad to justice: "The win of Hashemi Rafsanjani in therecent elections was characterized as the "moderate" victor in the recentIranian elections. However, the Argentinean judiciary recently determined thatit was this same Rafsanjani who planned, organized and ordered the massterrorist bombing of the Argentinean Jewish community center (AMIA) in 1994,resulting in the death of 85 people and 300 wounded. In a fortuitous yetchilling reminder, the Argentinean prosecutors' decision calling for arrestwarrants to be issued against the Iranian leadership was released on the sameday that President Ahmadinejad called yet again for the disappearance ofIsrael, and on the anniversary of his first public and direct call for thedestruction of Israel (on October 25, 2005) when, as he put it, "Israel must bewiped off the map, as the imam says."

    "The imam, in this instance, is formerAyatollah Ali Khameini, the supreme leader of Iran, who had declared in 2000that "there is only one solution to the Middle East problem, namely theannihilation and destruction of the Jewish state," while otherwise usingepidemiological metaphors in calling for Israel, "the cancerous tumor of astate," to be 'removed from the region.'"

    Iran's revolutionary leaders deeply believe they can carryout their ambitious agenda. To us, that sounds bizarre because we see Iran as amiddle-sized country that causes an amazing amount of trouble. Things look verydifferent to Iran's hardliners. They see themselves as the leaders of theworld's 1.2 billion Muslims who are destined to dominate the world.

    Persiais an Ancient Country with a Great Tradition

    To their conviction that Allah is on theirside, Iran's hardliners add a strong dose of nationalism. Iran's history is2,500 years old; by contrast, Islam has been around for a mere 1,300 years. Formost of that time, Iran (the ancient Persia) has been a much larger countrythan it is today. After all, the Bible tells us that it was the Persian Emperorwho ended the Jews' Babylonian captivity, freeing them to return to build theTemple in Jerusalem and giving them the money with which to do so. Coming to amore recent time, only 200 years ago, Iran was more than twice its presentsize. No wonder Iran expects to be the regional superpower, especially when itspopulation is three times that of Saudi Arabia and all the other Gulf Arabmonarchies combined.

    While its self-conceit may be impressive,Iran's only real chance to be able to dominate its neighborhood, much less toaccomplish its often-stated goal of eliminating Israel, is through its nuclearprogram. That is why U.S. policy toward Iran has appropriately focused on thenuclear issue. President Bush and his top officials have made many strongstatements about the dangers from Iran, calling a nuclear-armed Iranunacceptable. But the sad reality is that over the last year, Iran has madeslow but steady progress with its nuclear program, creating facts that will behard to reverse. Perhaps diplomacy can rescue the situation, but only strongerpressure can produce results.

    Russia and China, who have so far blockedSecurity Council action on Iran, are hard to read. The pessimistic view is thatthey do not care much about a nuclear Iran: yes, a militant Islamist Iran couldthreaten them (both have large Muslim populations), but a nuclear Tehran'sgreater threat to the West would be welcomed by some in Moscow and Beijing.

    The Role of Propaganda--Saying What theListener Want to Hear

    We must realize that within the Middle Easternculture, saying what your listener wants to hear is more important than tellingthe truth. For a Middle Easterner, words are more important than ideas, andideas are more important than facts. It is this trait that has caused manyAmericans to wonder how such outlandish statements can be made that arepatently false. For example, when Saddam Hussein said that the battle of thefirst Gulf War (Desert Storm) would be the "mother of all battles" and claimedvictory before anything started, it was the words and ideas that were embracedby his followers. The facts were not important. Predominantly Muslim nationswith state-controlled media--virtually all of them--exhibit thismentality most powerfully.

    Germany'sFour-Year Plan a Precursor for World War ll

    Just as the West may now not recognize theplanning and sincerity of Iran's preparations for war, it is important toreview the history of Germany during the period before World War ll.

    In reading the excellent book The Warof the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Fergurson, I noticed the striking similarity to the events occurring priorto World War II and the eventsoccurring in Iran and Europe. I refer specifically to pages 441-6.

    "Later, after it was all over, the historianFriedrich Meinecke tried to explain 'the German catastrophe' by arguing thattechnical specialization had caused some educated Germans (not him, needless tosay) to lose sight of the humanistic values of Goethe and Schiller; thus they were unable to resist Hitler's 'massMachiavellianism'. Thomas Mann was unusual in being able to recognize even atthe time that, in 'Brother Hitler', the entire German Bildungsbilrgertumpossessed a monstrous younger sibling who embodied some of their deepest-rooted aspirations. An academic education,far from inoculat–ing people against Nazism, made them more likely to embraceit. So much for the greatness of the German universities. Their fall from gracewas personified by the readiness of Martin Heidegger, the greatest Germanphilosopher of his generation, to jump on the Nazi bandwagon, a swastika pin in his lapel."

    "Were German intellectuals worse in theserespects than their counterparts elsewhere? Possibly. Yet other intellectualswere never exposed to Hitler's supernatural magnetism - and that, surely, wasthe crucial factor. For, on closer inspection, what Hitler offered Ger–mans wassomething much more than Roosevelt was offering Ameri–cans. Roosevelt spoke offrankness, action and leadership in a national emergency. But he emphasized inhis inaugural address that the nature of that emergency was purely material; spirituallyand morally there was nothing wrong with American society. Hitler, by contrast,saw Germany's economic problems as mere symptoms of a more profound nationalmalaise. Roosevelt made eight references in his speech to the 'people'; Hitlerused the word Volk no fewer than eighteen times. His role was not just torestart the economy but to be the nation's savior, the redeemer who would endyears of national division by forging a Volksgemeinschaft-afolk-community." [The folk-community has striking similarity to theIslamic concept of Ummah.] Tellingly, His first speech as Chancellor ended as follows:

    I cherish the firm conviction that the hour will come at last in which themillions who despise us today will stand by us and with us hail the new, hard-wonand painfully acquired German Reich we have created together, the new Germankingdom of greatness and power and glory and justice. Amen.

    The Rise of Messianic Populism

    The response that this messianic propositionelicited was quasi-–religious in its fervor. As an SA sergeant explained: 'Ouropponents ... committed a fundamental error when equating us as a party withthe Economic Party, the Democrats or the Marxist parties. All these partieswere only interest groups; they lacked soul, spiritual ties. Adolf Hitler emerged asbearer of a new political religion. [Just as we see today the rise ofPolitical Islam.] See IslamicEconomics and Shariah Law: A Plan for World Domination by David J. Jonsson.] 'The Nazis developed aself-conscious liturgy, with November 9 (the date of the 1918 Revolution andthe failed 1923 BeerHall putsch) as a Day of Mourning, complete with fires, wreaths, altars,blood-stained relics and even a Nazi book of martyrs. Initiates into the eliteSchutzstaffel (SS) had toincant a catechism with lines like:

    'We believe in God, we believe in Germanywhich He created ... and in the Fhrer ... whom He has sent us.'

    Mohammad Amin al-Husayni,(alternatively spelt al-Husseini), the Mufti of Jerusalem, was a PalestinianArab nationalist and a Muslim religious leader. Known for his anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism,al-Husayni fought against the establishment of a Jewish state in the territoryof the British Mandate of Palestine. Husayni collaborated with Nazi Germany,becoming a resident in Berlin during World War II, where upon being granted arank of SS Gruppenfhrer by Heinrich Himmler,he helped recruit Muslims for the Waffen-SS.

    It was not just that Hitler more or less overtlysupplanted Christ in the iconography and liturgy of 'the brown cult'. As the SSmagazine Das Schwarze Korps argued, the very ethical foundation of Christianityhad to go too: 'The abstruse doctrine of Original Sin ... indeed the wholenotion of sin as set forth by the Church ... is something intolerable to Nordicman, since it is incompatible with the 'heroic' ideology of our blood." [Thisparallels in many respects the teaching of the Qur'an.]

    Social Transformation

    'The Nazis' opponents also recognized thepseudo-religious charac–ter of the movement. As the Catholic exile EricVoegelin put it, Nazism was 'an ideology akin to Christian heresies ofredemption in the here and now ... fused with post-Enlightenment doctrines of socialtransformation'.

    As Clifford F. Porter in his article "EricVoegelin on Nazi Political Extremism"Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 63, Number 1, January 2002, pp.151-171 commented: Voegelin's analysis of Nazism is worth revisiting byhistorians because it delineated the Nazi rationale for the Holocaust in theearly 1930s, even if the Nazis themselves had yet to move towards mass murderearly in the regime. Voegelin was not prescient enough to predict the extent ofthe Holocaust, but he understood that the ideological rationale of Naziviolence was unlimited. Furthermore, his description of political extremism asGnosticism in 1952 is valid for explaining why an individual might support theNazis and then voluntarily commit extraordinarily vicious acts to try to realizethe dream-world [social transformation] of the Third Reich. ... By 1938 he had theorized that ideologies werepolitical secular religions that substituted the state for divine reality.

    The journalist Konrad Heiden called Hitler 'apure fragment of the modern mass soul' whose speeches always ended 'inoverjoyed redemption'.

    "Hitler had provided them with a suitableformula: 'we know two Gods: one in heaven and another on earth; the second isGermany.' But 'we' are Germany, Hitler had said on another occasion, and 'we'meant 'I.' And so there were people who prayed to Hitler, perhaps withoutrealizing that this was prayer". [Der Fuehrer byKonrad Heiden, pp 631]

    An anonymous Social Democrat called the Naziregime a 'counter-church'. Two individuals as different as Eva Klemperer, wifeof the Jewish-born philologist Victor, and the East Prussian conservativeFriedrich Reck-Malleczewen could agree in likening Hitler to thesixteenth-century Anabaptist Jan ofLeyden. (Niall Fergurson)

    As in our case, a misbegotten failureconceived, so to speak, in the gutter, became the great prophet, and theopposition simply disintegrated, while the rest of the world looked on inastonishment and incomprehension. As with us ... hysterical females,schoolmasters, renegade priests, the dregs and outsiders from everywhere formedthe main supports of the regime ... A thin sauce of ideology covered lewdness,greed, sadism, and fathomless lust for power ... and whoever would notcompletely accept the new teaching was turned over to the executioner.

    Still, all this leaves one question unanswered:What had gone wrong with the existing religions in Germany? For if NationalSocialism was a political religion, the fragmentation of the old politicalparties can–not satisfactorily be presented as the essential precondition forits success. Evidence of declining religious belief among German Chris–tians isin fact not hard to find: a substantial proportion of Germans exercised the option to be registered as konfessionslos (without a religion) in the 1920s. Therewere marked declines in church attendance, particularly in North German cities.Significantly, unlike the Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church had sufferedvery heavy financial losses in the hyper–inflation. Morale among the Protestantclergy was low; many were attracted to the Nazi notion of a new 'PositiveChristianity'. All this may offer a clue as to why the farmer were more likelythan the latter to vote Nazi in the crucial elections of 1930-33 - as we haveseen, the single most striking sociological characteristic of NSDAP support,though here too there was considerable regional variation and it would be quitewrong to infer from this anything stronger than inertia in Catholic votingpatterns. After all, Austrians were scarcely less enthusiastic about NationalSocialism and they were virtually all Cath–olic. And nearly all the fascistdictators were themselves raised as Catholics: Franco, Hitler, Mussolini, tosay nothing of wartime pup–pets like Ante Pavelic in Croatia and Jozef Tiso inSlovakia, who was himself a priest. (Niall Fergurson)

    In the article on Wesley Center Online by LeonO. Hynson, THECHURCH AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: An Ethics of the Spirit "We may call the Church to a Christian discipleshipin all spheres of life. If the Church, with its vision of righteousness andwholeness, is excluded from social involvement, then whom will the Churchsuggest for the task? The sectors of power and influence, professions andbusiness, labor and politics, have no adequate ethical ground from which tore-create, sanctify, and energize. These sectors of power all haveparticularized ethical norms for self-regulation, but lack an ethic equal tothe depth of human demand and need."

    George Forell - Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the School ofReligion at the University of Iowa, in answering the question: "Whydid the church not speak up against Nazism?" said, "Now, this church shouldhave probably said more. But when all is said and done, the only people thatsaid anything were the churches. Certainly the legal profession said nothing.Certainly the medical profession said nothing. Certainly the schools and theuniversity professors said nothing." There was no university Kampf, or amedical association Kampf. The only Kampf in Germany was the Kirchenkampf. This illustrates my claimthat the community of the Spirit is able to speak because it possesses themoral force. The ethic of the Spirit offers both the structure and substance ofa "categorical imperative" to humankind. The ethics of the Spirit offers thedynamic for its actualization. This ethics of the Spirit is the ethics of theChurch. Even now in our apocalyptic time, the Spirit is moving over the face ofthe world; and through the community of the Spirit, God is commanding: "Letthere be light"; and behold, light breaks forth, and God says. "It is good."

    George Forell writing in the article Admonitionin 2002 "The center of the Christian Faith is the Lord Jesus Christ who wascrucified for our sins and raised for our salvation. Without Christ there is noChristianity. This might seem obvious to most of us but we live in a time inwhich there are some, claiming to be Christians, who believe that theoverwhelming centrality of Christ for Christians is an embarrassment in apluralistic world. They say, "We should consider all founders of religion andimportant religious leaders of equal significance." Our answer must be our LordJesus Christ for he is not just the founder of a religion or a great religiousleader. He is the second person of God, the Holy Trinity. To downgrade Jesus toa religious leader or prophet is for Christian's blasphemy. Christ is our only savior.We are saved by faith alone through Christ alone."

    Implications of the Immanent Returnof the Twelfth Imam

    An official Iranian State media website, The World toward Illuminationpredicts the coming of both the ImamMahdi, the Shiite messiah, and Jesus by the spring equinox. 'Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance)will appear all of a sudden on the world scene with a voice from the skiesannouncing his reappearance at the holy Ka'ba in Mecca,' the message says.

    The website said the Mahdi will form an army to defeat Islam's enemies in a series of apocalypticbattles, overcoming his archenemy in Jerusalem, WorldNetDaily.com reported onDecember 31 in the article, Iran websiteheralding 'Mahdi' by springtime.

    In a greeting to the world's Christians for thecoming New Year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he expects bothJesus and the Mahdi to return and 'wipe away oppression,' WND reported lastmonth.

    'I wish all the Christians a very happy newyear and I wish to ask them a question as well,' said Ahmadinejad, according toan Iranian Student News Agency report cited by YnetNews.com.

    Ahmadinejad's mystical obsession with thecoming of the Mahdi raises concerns that a nuclear-armed Iran could trigger thevery conflagration he envisions for the end of the world.

    In a videotaped meeting with AyatollahJavadi-Amoli in Tehran, Ahmadinejaddiscussed a paranormal experience he had while addressing the United Nations inNew York last September. He says he found himself bathed in light from heaventhroughout the speech.

    'People are anxious to know when and how will He willrise; what they must do to receive this worldwide salvation,' says Ali Lari, acleric at the Bright Future Institute in Iran's religious center of Qom.'The timing is not clear, but the conditions are more specific,' he adds. Thereis a saying: 'When the students are ready, the teacher will come.'

    "The Bright Future Institutewas established in early 2004 by a number of scholars and masters of Islamicseminaries in the holy city of Qom with a view to develop the culture of Intizar or Awaiting Imam Mahdi a.s andto increase the knowledge about him both in Iran and abroad by supportingresearch and cultural works of other scholars. this institute is a non-profitmaking, independent research centre which promotes efforts to reject wrongideas about imam Mahdi by holding discussion sessions and also by preparingscientific answers to respond to superstitions surrounding him.
    The Bright Future Instituteis to hold an international Seminar every year about the fifteenth of Sha'ban,the auspicious birthday of Imam Mahdi (May God hasten His reappearance) tobring together researchers in messianic science."

    "The institute is the eighth of its kind inIran to study and even speed the Mahdi's return. But it is the largest and mostinfluential, with 160 staff, a growing reach in local schools, children's andteen magazines, and unlimited ambition to spread the word."

    "Mahdaviat is a code for the revolution, and isthe spirit of the revolution," says cleric Masoud Poursayed-Aghaie, head of theinstitute. "It's the code of our identity, [and] I think this belief has beenincreasing."

    Critics in Iran and outside dismissend-of-timers as unscientific, traditional followers of myths. To counter thosecritics, the institute's news agency, online at www.bfnews.ir,began churning out reports three months ago.

    "There is a gap between us and the popularmedia," says editor-in-chief Sayed Ali Pourtabatabaie. "We started the idea ofa messiah news agency of the Mahdi [because] we thought we needed a news agencyto publish His news."

    According to an article in the ChristianScience Monitor of January 4, 2006, True believers dialmessiah hotline in Iran "Have a quick question about when the Mahdi is comingto save mankind, according to Shiite Muslim adherents? Need to know the signs?"

    The 12th Imam is Expected to Return to Impose Justice and SpreadPeace

    "Just call the new messiah "hotline." Or log onto Bright Future News Agency to get the latest religious readout - all part ofthe effort by freshly rejuvenated true believers in Iran to spread theirmessage of the imminent return of the Mahdi, the 12th Imam who isexpected to return to impose justice and spread peace."

    TheProphetic Messages of Christianity and Islam

    In Matthew 24:3-8 (Holy Bible, NIV), we findJesus sitting on the Mount of Olives, where the disciples came to himprivately.

    "Tell us," they said, "when will this happen,and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" Jesusanswered, "Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name,claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and they will deceive many. You will hear of warsand rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things musthappen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, andkingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in variousplaces. All these are the beginning of birth pains."

    By contrast, Muhammad said:

    I have been ordered to fight against peopleuntil they say that there is no god but Allah. "That Muhammad is the messengerof Allah," they pray, and pay religious taxes. If they do that, their lives andproperty are safe. Sahih Muslim, #0033, and Sahih Bukhari, volume 1, #387

    You shall fight back against those (i.e.,Christians and Jews) who do not believe in GOD, nor in the Last Day, nor dothey prohibit what GOD and His messenger have prohibited, nor do they abide bythe religion of truth--among those who received the scripture--untilthey pay the due tax, willingly or unwillingly (until they pay tribute out ofhand, and they be humbled). The Jews said, "Ezra is the son of GOD," while theChristians said, "Jesus is the son of GOD!" These are blasphemies uttered bytheir mouths. They thus match the blasphemies of those who have disbelieved inthe past. GOD condemns them. They have surely deviated. Qur'an 9:29-30

    Shiiteand Sunni Apocalyptic Teaching

    It is important to recognize that both theShiites and Sunni sects have teaching related to the End Times. While theteaching of Shiite Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad considers that thereturn of the Mahdi, the 12th Imam as ushering in the End Times, theSunni scholar, Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi, in a fatwa posted on the website www.islamonline.net, (December 2, 2002) inresponse to a reader's question, wrote of the "signs of the victory of Islam,"citing a well-known Hadith: "...The Prophet Muhammad was asked: 'What city will be conquered first,Constantinople or Romiyya?' He answered: 'The city of Hirqil [i.e. the Byzantine emperor Heraclius] will beconquered first' - that is, Constantinople... Romiyya is the city called today'Rome,' the capital of Italy. The city of Hirqil [that is, Constantinople] was conquered by the young23-year-old Ottoman Muhammad bin Morad, known in history as Muhammad theConqueror, in 1453. The other city, Romiyya, remains, and we hope and believe[that it too will be conquered]." (See: Al-Qaradhawi:"Islam will Return to Europe as a Conqueror" MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 447, December 6, 2002.)

    "This means that Islam will return to Europe asa conqueror and victor, after being expelled from it twice - once from theSouth, from Andalusia, and a second time from the East, when it knocked severaltimes on the door of Athens."

    Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi qualified his statement: "I maintainthat the conquest this time will not be by the sword but by preaching andideology..."

    Al-Qaradhawi made similar statements on other occasions, onhis weekly religious program on Al-Jazeera. He declared: "This means that thefriends of the Prophet heard that two cities would be conquered by Islam,Romiyya and Constantinople, and the Prophet said that 'Hirqil [i.e. Constantinople] would be conquered first.'Romiyya is Rome, the capital of Italy, and Constantinople was the capital ofthe state of Byzantine Rome, which today is Istanbul. He said that Hirqil which is Constantinople would be conquered first andthis is what happened..."

    Scott Peterson-Staffwriter of The Christian Science Monitor in the article True believers dialmessiah hotline in Iran writes: "Shiitewritings describe events surrounding the return in apocalyptic terms, similarto those used in Revelations, which some Christian evangelicals believepredicts a final world war during which Jesus returns to win and reign for1,000 years.

    In one script, forces of evil would come fromSyria and Iraq and clash with forces of good from Iran. The battle would commenceat Kufa - the Iraqi town near the holy city of Najaf (and home to the anti-USIraqi cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr).

    "The evil commander named Sofiani and theanti-Mahdi known as Dajjal(comparable to the Christian antichrist), would both be killed. The forces ofgood would be led by a "man from Khorasan" - a province in northeast Iran."(Scott Peterson)

    The Mahdi would return at Mecca, and fight. Hisvictory would bring a government of God for a period of "seven," according toone reading. Seven months, years, or millennia are not clear.

    Another text details a conversation, in whichthe Muslim prophet Mohammad describes the Mahdi as "God's ultimate thing," andthat God "will conquer the Easts and the Wests of the earth through Him, and Hewill be absent from his followers [as he is now, known as the "hidden" 12thimam] to such an extent, no one can confirm his existence except the believerwhose heart has been tested for faith by the Almighty."

    Even while absent, the prophet is to have said,the Mahdi would benefit his followers, "just as people still benefit from thesun on a cloudy day."

    "The Imam of the Age will have victory, and theentire world will support him, except some regimes and governments that areracist, like Zionists," says Poursayed-Aghaie. The result will be globaldominance of Shiite Muslims.

    The Nuclear Crisis with IranContinues

    Remember he has a plan just like the Nazi's "Four Year Plan", he is a scholar of history, and he also isfollower of the Qur'an. The Persians are also Aryans.  The Aryan race is a notion mentioned in the Old Persianinscriptions and other Persian sources from c. 500 BC onwards. The word Iranis a cognate of Aryan, and is derived from the word Aryanam (see Airyanem Vaejah), meaning "Land of theAryans", a term adopted in antiquity by the Iranic-peoples meaning free, noble,spiritual. Seventy percent of those living in modern Iran are native speakersof Iranian/Aryan dialects.

    The Tehran Times reports that on February 25,Iran successfully launched its first rocket into space for research purposes,but state television has yet to broadcast pictures of the launch. According tothe article by Joel Leyden of the Israel New Agency on February 28, IranPlans To Nuke Europe, US - Sanctions Urged"An Israel security official told the Israel News Agency that the recent launch of a missile from Iran intospace illustrated a direct threat to both Europe's and US national security."

    In my article last month Using the Oil Weapon and Sanctions to Avert War With Iran,I commented about the necessity of sanctions and the use ofthe oil weapon.

    It is up to Europe to prevent the two worstdevelopments in Iran - war and nuclear armament - by acting jointly and withdetermination. Vital European and transatlantic interests are at stake. It isthus Europe's responsibility - and especially Germany's, as the current EUpresident - to act now.

    A source within the Israelcommented similarly according to Joel Leyden "Ifwe don't see severe economic sanctions coming from Europe in the next fewweeks, we will witness a catastrophe," said a source at the Israel Ministry forForeign Affairs. The source would not give his name because he would lose hisposition, but the matter of urgency had him staring at this writer praying toget the message out.

    "Iran has no plans toland a man on the moon," Col. Adam an Israeli security source told the INA. "Thesame technology is used to build intercontinental ballistic missiles. This Iranspace launch is not a threat to Israel. The Iranians need not reach a spaceorbit to attack Israel, but such a high orbit would be needed to deliver anuclear payload into Europe or the US." - Israelisecurity source.

    "Iran is no different than Nazi Germany", theMFA source said. "They too built up an army, resources and created the V-2."The V-2 was the first man-made object launched into space, during test flightsthat reached an altitude of 189 km (117 miles) in 1944. "While Germany wasputting the finishing touches to the V-2 which was eventually used againstBritain, the world stood by wanting to talk. Now we have Iran repeatinghistory, declaring to "wipe Israel off the map" while planting bombs in Iraqand Afghanistan, one which nearly killed US Vice President Cheney during hisvisit there a few days ago."

    "Iran which denies that a European Holocaustever took place, is now planning to create a second Holocaust in Europe and inthe US," said the Israel MFA source. "Europe will be first to feel this nuclearsuicide bomb, as London, Moscow, Madrid, Rome and Paris are now in range ofIranian missiles. We no longer have the luxury of time to implement sanctions.This is not a movie. This is not the "24" TV series about nuclear terrorism.This is real. Sanctions worked against North Korea, they can and will workagainst Iran."

    The Need for Addressing the Global Risk

    Diplomacy and military strength may deter theexpansion of the threat of a global confrontation but the West must address itslack of energy security and dependence on 'energy interdependence' instead of'energy independence'. The foreign policy of the United States and Europe mustaddress the energy, the environment, foreign trade, financial, immigration,homeland security and defense tracks in a unified manner. Similarly, addressingthe crisis in the Middle East, including the Israel-Palestine solution alsoinvolves solving relations with Russia, China and Eurasia. This will requirecommitment and pain now to our way of life. It will require sacrifice. Thealternative will be even worse.

    Until the U.S. and its allies understand whothe enemy is and their goals, and put forward a plan for survival, the worldwill be heading toward a major war of untold destruction. As mentioned above,we are revisiting 1938 and commercial interests and not security are drivingour actions, as then.

    Europe followed by America stand at the precipice, willthey succumb to a hedonist Leftist future scenario and then becomingIslamicized either through the actions of Leftist/Marxist – Alliance ornuclear Holocaust or will they reestablish their Judeo-Christian heritage. Theloss of Europe and America may occur by virtue of a collapsed population, faithand identity. The center of the Christian Faith is the Lord Jesus Christ whowas crucified for our sins and raised for our salvation. Without Christ thereis no Christianity. Which will it be? It is not possible to determine theoutcome, but, YOU the people living in Europe and America can influence theoutcome. Decision time is fast approaching.

    David J. Jonsson is the author of Clash of Ideologies —The Making of the Christian and Islamic Worlds, Xulon Press 2005. His new book: Islamic Economics and the Final Jihad: The Muslim Brotherhood to the Leftist/Marxist - Islamist Alliance (Salem Communications (May 30, 2006). He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics. He worked for major corporations in the United States and Japan and with multilateral agencies that brought him to more that fifteen countries with significant or majority populations who are Muslim. These exposures provided insight into the basic tenants of Islam as a political, economic and religious system. He became proficient in Islamic law (Shariah) through contract negotiation and personal encounter. David can be reached at: djonsson2000@yahoo.co.uk


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