(Graphic is from the Polemiken weblog).
Amir Taheri has an opinion piece The Daily Telegraph (UK) -- a rather frightening article about a dangerous psychotic . . . one who happens to be in power in Iran. (Amir Taheri is a former Executive Editor of Kayhan, Iran's largest daily newspaper. He now lives in Europe):
Last Monday, just before he announced that Iran had gatecrashed "the nuclear club", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disappeared for several hours. He was having a khalvat (tête-à-tête) with the Hidden Imam, the 12th and last of the imams of Shiism who went into "grand occultation" in 941
According to Shia lore, the Imam is a messianic figure who, although in hiding, remains the true Sovereign of the World. In every generation, the Imam chooses 36 men, (and, for obvious reasons, no women) naming them the owtad or "nails", whose presence, hammered into mankind's existence, prevents the universe from "falling off".
Although the "nails" are not known to common mortals, it is, at times, possible to identify one thanks to his deeds. It is on that basis that some of Ahmad-inejad's more passionate admirers insist that he is a "nail", a claim he has not discouraged. For example, he has claimed that last September, as he addressed the United Nations' General Assembly in New York, the "Hidden Imam drenched the place in a sweet light".
Last year, it was after another khalvat that Ahmadinejad announced his intention to stand for president. Now, he boasts that the Imam gave him the presidency for a single task: provoking a "clash of civilisations" in which the Muslim world, led by Iran, takes on the "infidel" West . . . (Read the whole article).
Related:
1. Background article: Who is Almadinejad?
2. Video re: the psychotic religious views of Almadinejad and his followers (8:43 min. Scroll down with bar on left).
(This article is cross-posted on A Deeper Look)
5 comments:
This morning's Telegraph also contained this article 'from the home front' about the rising support for the BNP.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=UF0JFKHSOHJRHQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2006/04/16/nbnp16.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/16/ixportaltop.html
Apologies for the huge URL -
if that doesn't work then just try
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Something is obviously stirring in Old Londonistan.
BTW, the BNP is Islamophobic and proud of it, but isn't as racist as some of its critics suggest.Take a look at this interview with a brave and patriotic British Sikh warning his fellow countrymen of the dangers facing them:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5313967073906592014
What a great post, and what a 'great' article ..with much new information. I'd write more, but I have to go into a Khalvat with Jeremiah, Moses and Eleazar ben Yair, over the coming zionist plot to bury Iran in gefilte fish.
Good job, Krishna.
It's too early here in California for me to have any opinions.
Mustapha kamel: When you get a chance, check out the "Tiny url" site. It converts long urls into very short ones-- very convenient!
(In fact, if you have that site bookmarked ("favorited"), you don't even have to type in or paste in the url). After you have the Tiny Url site bookmarked:
1-Go to the site with the long url
2-Click your bookmark for Tiny URL.
3-When the Tiny URL site opens, it will already have converted the url from the site you are arriving from into the "tiny" version.
(I'm not sure that explanation was clear, but in any event, take a look at the site-- it is quite simple to use: http://tinyurl.com/)
Compare this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=UAVGZBVCLEM4ZQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/opinion/2006/04/16/do1609.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/16/ixportal.html
With this:
http://tinyurl.com/h6wv6
They both will take you to the article "The frightening truth about why iran wants a bomb".
(I believe that there are other sites that do the same thing, but I just happened to stumble upon this one first).
Thanks for the advice, Krishna. I'll give this a go when I next have to deal with one of these verbose URLs
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