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January 21, 2006
Syria: Iranian Islamist Talks Of "The Final War"
President Ahmadinejad of Iran has been sounding recently like a loony with claims about wanting to see Israel wiped off the map, and how he wishes for a "scientific" reappraisal of the Holocaust, to prove his claims that the 6 million Jewish victims were part of a "myth".
His apparent resumption of the uranium enrichment program is threatening to draw a ruling from the UN, with requests from the western countries to refer the matter to the Security Council. Currently, Iranian assets are being withdrawn from western banks, in the event of economic sanctions against his country.
We reported earlier on the bizarre ideas of his spiritual mentor, Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yasdi, an extreme fundamentalist Shia. Mesbah-Yasdi believes literally in Abul-Qassem Mohammad, the 12th leader whom Shi'ites consider descended from the Prophet Mohammed, disappeared in 941 but will return at the end of time to lead an era of Islamic justice.
Ahmadinejad takes the myth seriously too: "Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi," he said recently. The disturbing aspect of this messianic prophecy is that, for the Mahdi to appear, there first must be chaos in the world. Formerly a kidnapper of US Embassy hostages in 1979, Ahmadinejad certainly knows how to create international instability.
And now, Al Jazeera reports that his end-times messianic fantasies are infecting his speeches again. While on his second day of a tour of Syria, Ahmadinejad spoke to leaders of Palestinian terror group Hamas in Damascus yesterday.
He said that the Middle East conflict was "the locus of the final war". Urging Palestinians to reject Israel's withdrawal of the Gaza Strip (?), he said "Today, victory in Palestine has become a matter of life and death for the Islamic world and for Global Arrogance (the West)."
"Some point to the withdrawal of the occupiers from parts of Palestine, but this event has already been greatly detrimental to Muslims. If the occupiers stay on even one inch of Palestinian soil, the goal of Palestine will not be realised," he stated.
"We must not let our guard down now for even one moment against the enemies' plots. Belittling the goal of Palestine is a great plot that the enemies are after."
His speech was listened to by the likes of Khalid Mash'al, head of Hamas' political bureau. Ahmadinejad urged Islamic stations to use their economic potentials to "cut the hand of the enemies."
"We (can only blame) ourselves for promoting the economies of the enemies and letting them impose pressure on us whenever they wish. Just three percent of global trade is accounted for by trade among Islamic countries. Islamic states are main importers from non-Islamic countries," he opined.
"Today, a big economic war is underway. The political war is obvious to all but there is an economic war that goes on undetected."
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 21, 2006 2:39 PM
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