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Originally Posted by geetrue
If a 1,300 year old prophecy about a "tall black man leading the strongest army on earth will take power in the west", is not enouh to conince you then perhaps this will  |
geetrue, I wasn't kidding. Follow the links from the article. Look:
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The question has made the rounds in Iran since last month, when a pro-government Web site published a Hadith (or tradition) from a Shiite text of the 17th century. The tradition comes from Bahar al-Anvar (meaning Oceans of Light) by Mullah Majlisi, a magnum opus in 132 volumes and the basis of modern Shiite Islam.
According to the tradition, Imam Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (the prophet's cousin and son-in-law) prophesied that at the End of Times and just before the return of the Mahdi, the Ultimate Saviour, a "tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West." Commanding "the strongest army on earth," the new ruler in the West will carry "a clear sign" from the third imam, whose name was Hussein Ibn Ali. The tradition concludes: "Shiites should have no doubt that he is with us."
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I suspect you're just falling hook, line, and sinker to those rascally Iranians out to take advantage of the widening American political divide by hammering a wedge into it. The last thing they want is a U.S. president with a nation behind him. Painting him as the anti-Christ or herald of the End of Days is a good way to prevent that.