The Signs of the Times: The Eschatology of Ahmadinejad’s final Speech Before UN

The speech by the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before the 67th UN General Assembly was religiously charged. Yet, there is no analysis of this in the media. What was interesting was not that he opened with praise to Allah, but that he closed with an Islamic eschatological vision that was the point of the various injustices and failures of capitalism (and communism) his speech outlined.

Here is what he said.

Ahmadinejad said “God has promised us a man of kindness, a man who loves people and loves absolute justice, a man who is a perfect human being and is named (inaudible), a man who will come in the company of Jesus Christ and the righteous.”

He then expounded further, “He will come to return all children of Adam, irrespective of their skin colors, to their innate origin after a long history of separation and division, linking them

What if Bush had made similar eschatological condemnations of the Islamic nations and world’s leaders in their face?

to eternal happiness and joy. The arrival of the ultimate savior, Jesus Christ and the righteous will bring about an eternally bright future for mankind, not by force or waging wars, but through thought, awakening and developing kindness in everyone. Their arrival will breed a new life in the cold and frozen hearts and body of the world.”

It is a shame that the media is so religiously illiterate that they thought this was just religious rant or doctrinaire speak. All the injustices and failures he talked of were simply setting the stage for an eschatological warning to the nations of the earth that we are on the verge that Islam will reign as a punishment. These are the signs of the times.

Curiously, though I do not say this in the spirit of conspiracy, the UN transcript I’ve quoted from says the name of the individual who will come with Jesus in judgment was inaudible – more illiteracy. In fact, I heard it quite clearly. His name is also stated in the official transcript from the Iranian government.

The one who will come that Ahmadinejad is referring to is the Imam al-Mahdi, who is not mentioned in the Quran. According to tradition, the Mahdi will appear to bring justice and truth to all, when the entire world will accept Islam. His death (before the day of resurrection) will bring turmoil, uncertainty, and temptation. There is not agreement over the Mahdi’s precise relationship to Jesus, but Ahmadinejad was clear that they will appear together. The various interpretations are a denial there will be a Muslim Mahdi, since the second coming of Jesus alone will fulfill this role. Others believe Jesus will return as a just judge, but he will die after forty years and be buried in a spot beside Muhammad’s tomb in Medina that has been reserved for him.

The Imam al-Mahdi is the divinely guided one, and is a concept developed by the Shiis and some Sunnis into that of a messianic deliverer who will return to champion their cause.

What is clear, and was clear in Ahmadinejad’s speech, is that the Imam al-Mahdi will appear when the world is irretrievably corrupt. We are witnessing the signs of this time. His reign will result in a time of natural abundance, justice, restoration of faith and of defeat for the enemies of Islam.

Apart from the US representative remaining absent and the Canadian delegation walking out, the Israeli delegation was not present. The speech took place on Yom Kippur. Was this as a result of the UN organizers diplomacy, or did their fabled tolerance fail them by not selecting another date?

It is strange that George W. Bush was constantly attacked by the US media for using religion in his rhetoric and bringing America to the precipice of intolerance. Yet, here in New York this speech is not analyzed in the religious sense in which it was intended. What if Bush had made similar eschatological condemnations of the Islamic nations and world’s leaders in their face? What if a future President Mitt Romney were to outline a Mormon eschatology? Yes, violent demonstrations and flag-burning across the Islamic world.

The Cheesy Movie Trailer that Islamic Extremists Gave Credibility To

  Bookmark and Share  President Obama and the Clinton State Department may be struggling with how to react to the still unfolding developments that led to incursions on the American embassies in Egypt and Libya and the subsequent killing of 4 Americans working at the Libyan embassy but most Americans are not struggling with their own reaction  to those events.  Unlike the State Department’s initial condemnation of free speech by those who are not fundamental Islamic extremists, most Americans have a problem with the terrorist mentality and the terrorists who are free to invade sovereign U.S. territory to shred our flag and kill our citizens.  So today, I have decided to exercise my freedom of speech and present to you a copy of the movie trailer which is said to have triggered the vicious crowds involved in the horrific events of the last day in Egypt and Libya.

The trailer promoted a movie called “Innocence of Muslims”, a film so cheesy and childish, that  its quality alone should be enough to offend the senses of anyone with an ounce of taste.  The trailer and movie were made by Sam Bacile, an inconsequential an apparently brainless, but wealthy Israeli-American real estate broker who lives in California.  Bacile posted the trailer on Youtube where under normal circumstances, it would have gone largely unnoticed by most citizens of the world, but it was not missed by Islamic fundamentalist who used the film as an excuse to set the stage for what we are now learning was a planned attack on at least the U.S. Embassy in Libya on the 11th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on our nation.

To be clear, I am not offering an opinion of the film’s message which is that Islam and it’s God, Mohammed are evil and blood thirsty animals with one purpose and one purpose only… to kill non-Muslims.  Personally, I believe that there exist some extremist elements who bastardize Islam and use it as a reason to promote hatred of non-Muslims and even the death of non-Muslims.  However, there is a distinction between those who practice their faith under such hate-based interpretations of it and those who don’t.  The ones who do adhere to such violent interpretations are terrorists.  They are the enemy of not just America, but of all freedom loving people of all faiths, including the majority of Muslims worldwide who do not share the extremist practices and more violent teachings of the Koran.   So my presentation of Sam Balice’s trashy and truly stupid movie trailer, is not an attempt to condone the movie.  In fact, posting it is not something I am comfortable with.  But I post it because I believe it is very important for the world to understand what  supposedly played a part in the murder of four Americans, including the first American Ambassador to be killed on foreign soil in nearly 4 decades.

After seeing this trailer and realizing how truly ridiculous and childish it is, one can’t help but be bewildered by how anyone could take it seriously.  Yet  this trailer was the excuse used for killing people.  So I believe it is important for people to see it.  I also firmly believe that as Americans, we have a responsibility here.  The extremists behind the violence perpetrated upon the U.S. yesterday claim their actions were a  be reaction to the film and its ugly portrayal of Islam and Mohammed.   If true, then we have a responsibility for everyone, everywhere to see what was behind their actions. Furthermore, the terrorist need to know that their actions achieved an effect e exact opposite of the one they wanted.    Instead of complying to their wishes and denouncing the film and pulling the plug on, let it be known that their actions have defeated their purposes and exposed even more people to the film and its message than would have been originally exposed to it had they respected freedom of speech and not resorted to violence.

I show this trailer to also point out how terribly ironic the Islamic extremist are.

Their killing of Americans in protest of the film happens to actually gives the film’s message some credence.  At the very end of the clip, the embarrassingly incompetent actor portraying Mohammed states “Every non-Muslim is an infidel.  Their land, their women, their children, are our spoils”.  These remarks are made as the buffoon repeating them wears a blood splattered garb and swings a sword, all to convey the filmmaker’s message that Islam is driven by the desire to kill all Christians and Jews.  Ironically, after carrying out yesterday’s attacks, the Islamic extremists behind those attacks actually did a good job at making it harder for people to believe that the film’s portrayal of Islam is actually wrong.

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Too Bad The Debate Won’t Matter

It is way too late in the game for the groundswell of Santorum supporters to turn back and take a gamble on Newt.  At stake is handing the Republican nomination to an establishment Republican with a liberal tax plan, timid economic plan, and nothing more than a strong business reputation to run on.  But after last night’s debate, the choice for the Republican nominee is as clear to me as the day I endorsed him.

I was proud of Newt for making a supremely important point in the debate over contraception.  The issue isn’t a debate between someone who wants to keep birth control pills legal and someone who wants to ban all contraception and chain women to the kitchen sink.  The debate is between someone who voted to make it legal for doctors to kill babies after they are born and the eventual GOP candidate who simply wants to protect religious organizations from having to pay for abortion pills.  The radical here is most definitely Obama and both Newt and Mitt pointed that out.

Santorum struck out more than once.  He came across as arrogant, angry and mean.  He has already taken a great deal of heat for dismissing unprincipled votes as “taking one for the team”.  This is the opposite of what anti-establishment Republicans are looking for.  I will give Santorum one very good mark though for making clear that when he talks about what is wrong with the family in America, he id not proposing that we use the government to solve it.  I mentioned that a couple days ago as something Santorum has not done a good job making clear.

Romney did a poor job connecting.  He has put up a conservative facade, but his opponents consistently poked holes in it.  In the end, he will keep his diehard supporters and establishment Republican allies, but he continues to disappoint.

Ron Paul continues to live in a time machine fantasy world where we supposedly can ignore what Iran is doing because we made them do it in the first place and ignoring them will make them go away.  Ron Paul does not seem to understand that on a scale of rationality, radical Islamic terrorists make the communists and fascists seem like Locke and Des Cartes.  Mutual guaranteed destruction is no great incentive for peace when offered to suicide bombers.

Unfortunately, Newt does not have the ground organization to convince Santorum voters to switch back.  But after last night’s debate, we may be kicking ourselves for a long time for overlooking him in 2012.

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