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A China Earthquake – Muslim Chechnya Terrorists – Future Christian Bloodshed.

After Islamic Mahdi Future Middle East Conquests Chechnya Will Join Caliphate,

As Will Independent Majority Islam Population Satellites Of Former Soviet Union

And all the Known Old World countries Will Experience Great Christian Slaughter.

Minority Chechnya Salafis Jahidis will Shed Christian Blood in their Own Environs.

April 21, 2013

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PLEASE CONSIDER THE PREVIOUS BLOG CONCERNING THE MINORITY OF SALIFIS JAHIDIN TERRORISTS IN CHECHYNA, HOMELAND OF THE 2 BOSTON TERRORISTS, BY SCANNING DOWN.

CHINA EARTHQUAKE

A strong destructive earthquake, many media reports have stated as having a 6.6 to 7.0 magnitude, has rocked China’s Sichuan province, which was the site of a massive 2008 quake. It occurred on Saturday morning 2 minutes after GMT.

By noon CST the death toll had risen to 156 and some estimates of the injured had climbed to 5,500. Both counts are expected to climb.

Isaiah 29:6 –Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

CHECHNYA MUSLIMS

Islam is the predominant religion in Chechnya. Chechens are overwhelmingly adherents to Sunni Islam, the country having converted to Islam between the 16th and the 19th centuries. Due to historical importance, many Chechens are Sufis, of either the Qadiri or Naqshbandi orders. Most of the population follows either the Shafi’i, Hanafi, or Maliki schools of jurisprudence, fiqh. The Shafi’i school of jurisprudence has a long tradition among the Chechens, and thus it remains the most practiced.

Chechnya is predominantly Muslim. Most Chechens belong to the Shafi’i school of thought of Sunni Islam, while a minority belong to the Hanafi. Some adhere to the mystical Sufi tradition of muridism, while about half of Chechens belong to Sufi brotherhoods, or tariqah. The two Sufi tariqas that spread in the North Caucasus were the Naqshbandiya and the Qadiriya (the Naqshbandiya is particularly strong in Dagestan and eastern Chechnya, whereas the Qadiriya has most of its adherents in the rest of Chechnya and Ingushetia). Some of the modern Chechen rebels are SALAFIS, but these form a small minority of the group and are often viewed suspiciously by non-Salafis who protectively guard their national customs against encroachment

THE SALAFIS JAHIDIS

The SALAFIS JAHIDIS, also known as the Salafist movement, is a movement among Sunni Muslims named by its proponents in reference to the Salaf (“predecessors” or “ancestors”), the earliest Muslims considered to be examples of Islamic practice. The term has been in use since the Middle Ages. The movement is related to or includes Wahhabism (a name which some of its proponents consider derogatory, preferring the term Salafism), so that the two terms are often viewed as synonymous. At other times, Salafism is deemed as the hybridation between Wahhabism and other movements which has taken place since the 1960s. Salafism has become associated with literalist, strict and puritanical approaches to Islam and, in the West, with the SALAFI JAHIDIS who espouse violent jihad against civilians as a legitimate expression of Islam. It has been noted that the Western association of Salafi ideology with violence stems from writings done “through the prism of security studies” that were published in the late 20th century, having persisted well into contemporary literature.[5] More recent attempts have been made by academics and scholars who challenge these major assumptions. Academics and historians use the term to denote “a school of thought which surfaced in the second half of the 19th century as a reaction to the spread of European ideas,” and “sought to expose the roots of modernity within Muslim civilization.”

The once-strong Russian minority in Chechnya, mostly Terek Cossacks and estimated as numbering approximately 25,000 in 2012, are predominately Russian Orthodox, although presently only one church exists in Grozny. In August 2011, Archbishop Zosima of Vladikavkaz and Makhachkala performed the first mass baptism ceremony in the history of Chechen republic in the Terek River of Naursky District in which 35 citizens of Naursky and Shelkovsky districts were converted to Orthodoxy.

CHINA EARTHQUAKE CONTINUED

A strong destructive earthquake, many media reports have stated as having a 6.6 to 7.0 magnitude, has rocked China’s Sichuan province, which was the site of a massive 2008 quake. It occurred on Saturday morning 2 minutes after GMT.

By noon CST the death toll had risen to 156 and some estimates of the injured had climbed to 5,500. Both counts are expected to climb.

Luke 21:11a – And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;

Revelation 6:8 – And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword (red horse), and with hunger (black horse), and with death (pale horse), and with the beasts (demons) of the earth.

The fourth part of the earth refers to a territorial part of the earth, not the death toll of a fourth of the earth’s population. I believe the fourth part of the earth will include Europe, Russia, China, Africa, the Middle East, Eurasia, Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Affects of Three Seal Riders and Demonic Beasts on one-fourth of the Earth

Revelation 6:3-8 – And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. [4] And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. [5] And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. [6] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. [7] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. [8] And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Some seem to have the impression that these three riders pass their individual judgments on the earth, with each one departing the scene when the next one shows up, and then the last one, the pale horse rider death, departs the scene as soon as the fifth seal opens. I don’t know where the idea came from, but I am convinced that these three riders are going to be galloping until the end of the last 1260 days of the tribulation, and will be striding at their greatest pace at Armageddon. The red horse pictures bloodshed, the black horse represents famine, and the pale horse represents death. These three phenomena will be experiencing their peak occurrences during the final great battle of Armageddon. The “them” in verse eight refers specifically to the rider on the red horse (death by weapon of war), the rider on the black horse (death by hunger), and the rider on the pale horse (death by pestilence). By the close of the tribulation period they will have killed billions across one-fourth of the earth. The word translated as “earth” is “ges,” and it does not mean population, it means “earth.” Many writers try to make this a fourth of the world’s population, but that can’t be the case, because “ges” never means population.

The great demonic beast Armies surrounding Satan’s seat along the Euphrates River is unleashed to kill 1/3 of the remaining population on the fourth Middle East part of the earth.

Revelation 9:13-19 – And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, [14] Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. [15] And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. [16] And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. [17] And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. [18] By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. [19] For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

A final feast of the slain bodies by the wildlife on the fourth of the earth will find their maximum food supply at the final battle of Armageddon.

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SUPPLIMENTARY SATURDAY EVENING BLOG:

THOUGHTS ON THE 2 BOSTON TERRORISTS

Like it or not, we are engaged in a religious war of violently clashing theologies!

April 20, 2013

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I FIRST LEARNED OF THE EXTREMELY RADICAL SALAFISTS IN 2007 AND BECAN TO MONITOR THEIR ACTIVITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN 2008.

I PUT UP A BLOG ON SALAFISTS IN 2008, AND A SECOND BLOG IN 2012. I AM PUTTING THEM UP AGAIN ON THIS BLOG BECAUSE THERE IS A SALAFIST JIHAD MINORITY IN CHECHNYA.

SINCE THE 2 BOSTON TERRORISTS COME FROM CHECHNYA, I WONDER IF THEY MIGHT, REPEAT MIGHT, HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE SALAFISTS.

I PLAN TO SEND A BLOG WITH MUCH MORE DETAIL AFTER MIDNIGHT.

Begin Our Blog of December 18, 2012

SALAFISTS – MOST ULTRA-RADICAL ISLAM JIHAD TERRORISTS!

“AMERICA IS THE MOTHER OF ALL TERROR IN THE WORLD”

“ALLAH BLESSES THE HEROES OF JABBAT AL NUSRA”

“AS THEY SLAUGHTER INNOCENT BYSTANDERS”

THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD & SALAFISTS

NOW PAVE THE WAY FOR ANTICHRIST

TO RULE OVER 10 ISLAMIC HORNS

December 18. 2012

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This is one of the groups I did not have contact with during my 1952-1953 assignment in the Holy Land . I knew nothing about them until 2007, and I began to warn against them in 2008 on receipt of Excerpt 1 from Spiegel Online on July 19, 2012. A current Excerpt 2 from Ynet News will bring you up to date how organized they have become between 2008 and 2012.

The Salidists are the best of the individual anti-Assad groups in strength, organization, and fighting ability. It is possible the Antichrist could arise from this group. You would do well to know about them and to watch their organization as they spread across the Arab world.

ISLAM WILL NEVER RECEIVE THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH

II Thessalonians 2:8-12 – And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: [9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, [10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: [12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

SO GOD WILL PUT IN ISLAMIC HEARTS TO FOLLOW ANTICHRIST

Revelation 17:12,13,17 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. [17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Begin 2008 Excerpt 1 from Spiegel Online

Salafist Jihadists – Most Radical of Radicals

July 20. 2008

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Begin Excerpt from Middle East Review & Analysis

SALAFIST JIHADISTS IN GAZA: ‘Compared to Us, Hamas Is Islamism Lite’

By Ulrike Putz in the Gaza Strip

SPIEGEL ONLINE 07/18/2008 05:33 PM

www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,566740,00.html

July 19, 2008

Global power is their goal, and they are willing to slaughter innocents to get there. A group of ultra-radical Islamists are training in the Gaza Strip, and SPIEGEL ONLINE met with one of their leaders.

It’s not easy to find a place to meet the man who goes by the name of Abu Mustafa. A number of places were agreed on and jettisoned. Finally, after hours of cruising around Gaza City with Abu Mustafa’s driver, the call came. The meeting would take place on the beach. There are enough people on the beach that one doesn’t attract so much attention, the caller explained. How absurd this notion was would soon become clear.

Most people don’t stick out on the beaches of Gaza to the degree that Abu Mustafa does. He picks his way across the sand on crutches, his leg wrapped in a cast up to his thigh. The Pakistani clothes he wears are also foreign — and the white shirt that hangs to his knees makes walking on crutches even more difficult. Finally he slumps in a plastic chair. “Peace be upon you,” he says quietly, welcoming his guest.

Many people would like to speak with Abu Mustafa these days — he guesses about 10 men call him each day. Abu Mustafa holds the key to an ideology that many are turning to in the Gaza Strip: Salafist jihadism, a belief in the most radical form of Islam. “We meet secretly in mosques and private homes,” says Abu Mustafa, who has become an entry point to the movement for many. He says the Salafis now number up to 5,000 people, not counting the women and children.

‘A Very Dangerous Man’

“We aren’t well enough organized yet, but we are in the process of building networks,” says the 33-year-old. Eventually, he hopes, a powerful movement will be born. Members are already receiving weapons training and are schooled in both dogma and strategy. “When the fight begins, they will show no mercy,” said a middleman for the interview — himself a fighter in an armed militia — prior to the beach meeting. “Abu Mustafa is a very dangerous man.”

Salafist — sometimes referred to as Wahhabis — dream of a world before Islam became cluttered with new innovations and cultural influences. They seek to live a pious, god-fearing life governed by the laws of religion, a life resembling those of the original Muslims. At first glance, such a belief system doesn’t differ much from that of other utopian sects — were it not for their ideas related to holy war. To make their vision a reality, Abu Mustafa and his men are willing to fight — and they are willing to slaughter innocent bystanders.

“Look,” says Abu Mustafa, whose beard cascades down his chest, “there will be three possibilities. Some will find their way to Islam. Those who don’t want to convert will be able to live in peace under the authority of Islam.” For those who don’t want to accept the hegemony of Islam, however, holy war is the only recipe. “Then we have to fight — just like our brothers on Sept. 11,” Abu Mustafa says.

The attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. seven years ago were a response to the contempt held for Islam by the Western world, he says. “If Muslims are attacked anywhere in the world, one has to hit back, and it doesn’t matter where.” Salafist Islam is like a cat, he says. “It is very friendly, but if it is attacked, it turns into a tiger.”

The True Islam

“We feel just like al-Qaida and we think as they do,” Abu Mustafa says. He won’t say if he has contact with Osama bin Laden’s terror group, but calls it vaguely “a possibility.” He also dodges the question of whether foreigners have joined the Salafist movement in the Gaza Strip.

Abu Mustafa is not fond of speaking with journalists. It is still risky for the group to come out of hiding, since Hamas — the Palestinian Islamist group which controls the Gaza Strip — views Salafis with suspicion. Both groups claim to represent true Islam, and both compete for the same followers. The fact that Abu Mustafa finally agreed to a meeting with SPIEGEL ONLINE comes out of gratitude, he says. “I owe the Germans a lot,” he explains in his slow, careful German.

Abu Mustafa has a degree from the University of Saarbrucken in Germany’s far west. For seven years, until 2000, he studied chemical engineering and led a largely normal student existence. He had periodic jobs with a moving company or in construction, and he occasionally cooked up Palestinian specialties for other students living in the dormitory. “I miss Germany,” he says. He’s even looked on Google Earth for the street where he used to live and the cafeteria where he used to eat.

He explains that he was largely accepted in Germany and found people there to be quite friendly. The only problems came about when he encountered scantily clad women or fellow students who spent much of their time in clubs and bars. He says such experiences rooted him even deeper in his beliefs. “It would be better for such people were they to follow the pure Islam,” he says. “We are going to try and bring the faith to them.”

The Salafi warns that Germany, by supporting Israel and participating in operations in Afghanistan, is a clear target for his fellow Islamists. He claims he himself would never move against his “second home,” but he warns that “Germany should be afraid of being attacked.”

Struggle for Global Influence

Salafists from the Gaza Strip first stepped into the global spotlight in March 2007, when jihadis from Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who was based in the Gaza Strip. The group is a small faction among Salafis. They held Johnston hostage for four months, threatening to kill him and showing images of him wearing a suicide belt. Abu Mustafa says it was a legitimate tactic in the struggle for Islam. “It was nothing personal. It was a message to the West that they should release imprisoned Muslims.” For the moment, he adds reassuringly, foreign journalists are not in danger in the Gaza Strip.

Indeed, Abu Mustafa says, he and his comrades in arms realize they need to be patient. There’s a long way to go before they can begin their struggle for global influence. First, they have to take care of an enemy closer to home: Hamas.

So far, Hamas has done what it can to keep the Salafis under control. They know the ultra-radicals are just waiting to take over Hamas’ position of leadership. “They are traitors,” Abu Mustafa says of Hamas. “Compared to us, they are Islamism lite.”

Nevertheless, he’s willing to be merciful. “We will give them the chance to turn away from the false path,” he says. And what happens if they don’t take up the offer? “Then there will be confrontation,” Abu ustafa promises, bringing his fists together. Still, he doesn’t think it likely that the Salafis will have to take up arms against Hamas. “It won’t be necessary. They will destroy themselves.”

Power Struggle

His explanation is clear. “For many people in Gaza, Hamas embodied the promise of a good, Islamic lifestyle,” Abu Mustafa says. But once the group seized power in the Gaza Strip over a year ago, many were disappointed. Of the 10 defectors who call him everyday, many of them are Hamas fighters, he claims. “These are tough men and they have insider knowledge. They will be very useful should it come to a power struggle.”

The group’s greatest sin, says Abu Mustafa, who is also the father of two children, is its effort to bring Islam and democracy together. “Hamas represents an American style of Islam. They have tried to curry favor.”

Which is not such a bad thing for Abu Mustafa and his Salafis. “Hamas is like a block of ice in the sun,” he says. “Every minute they get smaller — and we get larger.” Abu Mustafa’s broken leg and the scars on his right hand are the result of an Israeli rocket attack. In January, he and a few of his comrades fired rockets across the border into Israel. Afterwards, as they were heading home, an Israeli missile hit them.

Four men were injured and one, as Abu Mustafa says, became a martyr. The fact that his leg still hurts six months later is something he bears with stoicism. “It is not important how one feels in this life, rather whether one enters paradise or hell after death,” he says.

For his part, Abu Mustafa claims he is not afraid of death. He says he is not fighting for worldly things. And he hopes he will fall in the struggle for his beliefs.

“On the other hand,” he says before pushing himself up and limping back to his car, “I would love to see my daughter wed. Maybe she will marry first, and then I will become a martyr.”

Begin Excerpt 2 from YNetnews

First we take Damascus, then Tel Aviv’

Salafist leader warns that once rebels topple Assad’s regime they will set their sights on Israel; says ‘We won’t rest until Palestine is liberated’

Roi Kais

December 17, 2012

The leader of the radical Salafist movement in Jordan, whose organization actively supports the Syrian rebels’ efforts to topple President Bashar Assad’s regime warned Sunday that once the Damascus opposition achieves its primary goal, it will set its sights on Israel.

The group’s leader, Abed Shihadeh, who is also known as Abu Muhammad al-Tahawi, spoke at the funeral of a Jihadist who committed a suicide attack in Amman last week.

Related stories:

* Syrian jets bomb Palestinian camp in Damascus
* Syrian FM blames West for nation’s suffering
* Obama: US recognizes Syria’s main rebel group

“We tell Benjamin Netanyahu, the (Israeli) prime minister, get ready. The army of the Prophet Mohammad is coming your way.”

Shihadeh added: “Those carrying explosives in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan will find you, Allah willing,” he added. “The next fight is between us and you.”

The jihadist leader further pledged to “Take over Damascus and then head to Tel Aviv… As far as we are concerned, Palestine stretches from river to sea, from Rafah to a-Nakura. We will not rest until Palestine is liberated.”

Commenting on the United States’ decision to add the al Qaeda-linked Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra to its terror watch list, Shihadeh said that “Allah blesses the heroes of Jabhat al-Nusra.

“America is the mother of all terror in the world,” he added, further blaming the US for “standing by Assad and the Jews.”

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Yes, Virginia And Barack: There Really IS A Growing Shia Crescent,

Which eventually will be Resurrected to become the final Caliphate

It will Be the Largest Caliphate Since The huge Umayyad Caliphate.

The Mahdi (Antichrist) Shall Be the Eighth King Of Revelation 17:11!

Mahdi is Paul’s man of sin and ‘that Wicked’ in II Thessalonians 2:8!

He Is Ezekiel’s Chief Prince Gog Of Meshech & Tubal [Greater Syria]!

April 20, 2013

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Anti-war protesting groups, peaceniks, pacifists, and far left liberal organizations made fun of President Bush when he initiated the “Axis of Evil” label. I was certainly not among them. I believed it from the beginning, and fully advocated the “Shia Crescent” as the greatest danger facing the West, when Jordanian King Abdullah coined its name. The “Shia Crescent” has been ridiculed in books, the media, and by prophetic buffs, but time is, and will continue to, validate it.

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Shia Crescent is the crescent-shaped region of the Middle East where the majority population is Shi’a, or where there is a strong Shi’a minority in the population. The corresponding term is especially common in German, where it is known as Schiitischer Halbmond (“shia halfmoon”). This term was coined[1] by Abdullah II, king of Jordan, after which it became popular in political debates. References to the Shia Crescent are often made with the belief that the common religion gives good potential for cooperation.

The nations where Shi’a Muslims form a dominant majority are Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Iran, Bahrain and Iraq. The shape of these countries put together resembles a crescent or half moon. Large minorities also exist in Turkey, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, India, UAE, and Syria.

The major changes arising out of the emotional Evangelical Revival’s Great Awakening which began in 1730, promoted many prophetic teaching changes from 1740 to 1835. I am convinced many of the prophetic teaching revisions of today are not accurate when compared with prophetic teachings prior to 1730. Man’s secular knowledge increased, and literally exploded after WW-1, but his general spiritual kno0wledge has been on the decline since 1967, and the prophesied great falling away from the truth is in full swing.

The Antichrist will not come out of Europe. This teaching began after 1730.

Daniel 9:27 is not about the Antichrist. This teaching also arose after 1730

The curtain is falling on the end of the Gentile Age and most believers don’t believe it since they think the two previous sentences are correct prophecy interpretations.

Revelation17:11-13 – And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. [12] And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

Revelation 17:17 – For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

II Thessalonians 2:3 – Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

II Thessalonians 2:8-12 – And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: [9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, [10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: [12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Ezekiel 38:3-6 – And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [4] And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: [5] Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: [6] Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee

Begin Archive Excerpt from Asia Times Online

April 20, 2005

The waxing of the Shi’ite crescent

By Sami Moubayed

DAMASCUS – Since the Islamic revolution took place in Iran in 1979, one of its prime objectives was to strengthen Shi’ites all over the Muslim world. Before that revolution, they were a disinherited, underprivileged and neglected community in Lebanon and Iraq.

This “Shi’ite emancipation” was first done in Lebanon, through the charismatic cleric Musa al-Sadr, who was funded and supported by the mullahs of Tehran in his “Movement of the Dispossessed” and its military branch, Amal, created in 1974 and 1975, respectively.

They later supported Hezbollah, a pure Iranian creation, that strove at first to establish a theocracy in Lebanon, similar to the one in Iran. In time, the role of Hezbollah became to defend the Shi’ite community in Lebanon, rather than bring them to power in Beirut, and safeguard their political rights in the complex confessional system of Lebanon.

In Iraq, the mullahs began to fund, train, protect and harbor Shi’ite dissidents opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein, where they were oppressed by the Sunni minority. Ibrahim Jaafari, the new prime minister, who is the de facto ruler of the new Iraq, spent the years 1980-89 as a fugitive in Iran.

After 25 years of underground struggle, this community succeeded in toppling Saddam, ironically, with the help of the US. The overthrow of Saddam, the newfound status of the Shi’ites in Iraq, their victory in the January 2005 elections, and the election of Jaafari were all well received in Tehran. They summed up what Iran had wanted in Iraq since 1979.

Jaafari, who has been active in Shi’ite politics since 1968, raises hopes throughout the Muslim world that struggle, persecution and long years of banishment will not prevent the Shi’ites from rising to power in their respective communities, just like they did in Iran in 1979, and Iraq in 2003. A member of the pan-Shi’ite United Iraqi Alliance, and a brother-in-law of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Jaafari’s appointment as premier raises more than an eyebrow in the Arab world.

The Shi’ites and Syria

Syria’s relationship with Iran and its Shi’ites has always been a strategic one, based on pragmatism and mutual interests rather than pan-Shi’ite loyalties, as was the case with Lebanon and Iraq. The Shi’ite community in Syria is small and has no history of political ambitions. They are first-class citizens, and occupy several senior posts – as Syrians, however, and not as Shi’ite Syrians.

Among the most prominent are Dr Hani Murtada, the current minister of higher education, who had been president of Damascus University and is one of the finest pediatricians in Syria, and comedian and political satirist Duraid Lahham.

During the entire pre-Ba’ath era, only one Shi’ite politician rose to fame in Syria, namely Said Haydar from Baalbak, who co-led the revolt against the French in the 1920s, and served several times as a deputy in the Syrian parliament, and who was a co-author of its constitution.

Syria’s support for the Iranian revolution began in 1979, due to its animosity toward the US-backed and Israel-allied regime of Shah Reza Pahlevi. Actually, Damascus had even involved itself in the Shi’ite underground, by helping some of ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s lieutenants prior to the revolution that deposed the Shah.

Men like Ibrahim Yazdi, Mustapha Chamran and Sadiq Qotbzadeh (two future ministers in the Islamic Republic) were all allies of Syria, and Qotbzadeh, for example, had been given a Syrian passport to conduct anti-Shah activities, disguised as a Paris correspondent for the Syrian daily al-Thawra.

Damascus was pleased when Iran’s new leader, Khomeini, closed down the Israeli Embassy in Tehran, to show his distance from the Shah and his alliances, then reopened it as an embassy for the Palestinian Liberation Organization of Yasser Arafat. Syrian leader Hafez Assad had offered Khomeini asylum in Syria in October 1978. When Khomeini came to power, Syrian vice president Abd al-Halim Khaddam remarked that the Islamic revolution in Iran was the “most important event in our contemporary history” and boasted that Syria had supported it “prior to its outbreak, during it and after its triumph”.

Syria also backed, but provided no arms or money to, Iran during its eight-year war with the Ba’athist regime of Saddam, starting in 1980. When the war ended, the two countries found more room for cooperation vis-a-vis combating Israel through Hezbollah in south Lebanon. Iran did it out of pan-Shi’ite loyalties. Syria did it to continue its war by proxy with Israel.

Some speculated that with Saddam gone in 2003, the common enemy of Damascus and Tehran, both countries would have little reason for future cooperation, especially since the new leaders of Baghdad were Shi’ite allies, and proteges, of Iran. The new Iran-friendly regime in Baghdad, many argued, would end all logical reasons for a Syrian-Iranian honeymoon.

Yet Iran continued its support for Syria, even after international pressure mounted on Damascus following the assassination of Lebanese ex-prime minister Rafik Hariri on February 14. Iran feared, some believed, that Hezbollah’s alliance with Syria in the aftermath of the Hariri crisis would damage the guerrilla movement’s standing in Lebanon.

These fears were brushed aside by a statement by Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Naji al-Otari expressing solidarity with Iran, and by Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref, who said, “We are ready to help Syria confront all threats.” Syria noted Iran’s positive attitude and responded with positive gestures, reacting very warmly to the appointment of Iran’s ally, Jaafari, as premier.

The Shi’ites of Bahrain

In Bahrain, which has a 70% Shi’ite majority (of a total population of about 443,000), ruled by a Sunni minority, the Shi’ites hoped that Shi’ite power in Tehran and Baghdad would bring more regional and international attention to their plight. To them, the ascent of Jaafari and the Shi’ites in Iraq is of no less importance than the Islamic revolution of 1979.

Treated as an underclass, they rose against the Bahraini government in 1994, with the funding of Iran, demanding reforms, better living conditions and restoration of the parliament abrogated by Sheikh Issa bin Salman al-Khalifa in 1975. Hopes were a little heightened in 2002 when Issa’s son, King Hamad, restored constitutional life to Bahrain, but curbed its powers, and reduced Shi’ite representation.

They boycotted elections in 2002, and were very poorly represented in the lower chamber of parliament (the upper chamber was appointed by the king). Before the elections, in an attempt at bolstering Sunni representation in Bahrain, authorities decided to grant dual citizenship to nationals of the Gulf Cooperation Council living in Bahrain (mostly Sunnis). This aroused much controversy, and the Bahraini government decided to back down, fearing Shi’ite wrath, and grant citizenship to 10,000 Shi’ites living in Bahrain as an appeasement before the elections of October 2002.

On March 26 thsi year, shortly after it was confirmed that Jaafari was the new prime minister of Iraq, 80,000 Shi’ite demonstrators came out in Bahrain to demand a new constitution giving them more rights, among which was electing a prime minister, and not having him appointed by the king. In the past, demonstrators in Bahrain carried photographs of Iraq’s Sistani and Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran.

The Shi’ites of Saudi Arabia

The same scare has taken over Saudi Arabia since 2003, where 11% of its 25 million people are Shi’ites. They, too, complain of being discriminated against, and have strong alliances in Baghdad and Tehran. Only a few days after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, Sheikh Hasan al-Saffa, a leading Saudi Shi’ite reformist, appeared on satellite television to demand an end to the injustice done against the Shi’ites in Saudi Arabia.

Shi’ite districts in Saudi Arabia were underdeveloped, and Saudi authorities prevented Shi’ites from practicing their rituals and building mosques, in addition to denying them equal access to government jobs and the Saudi army. By the end of April 2003, the Shi’ites had petitioned Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, for political and religious freedoms. Among other things, they demanded increased representation in government, the right to set up their own courts, publish their own books, the lifting of bans on their rituals, and the creation of a special department to oversee their issues at the Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs.

Deeply rooted in the Arabian desert, the Shi’ites were around before the modern state of Saudi Arabia was created in the 1920s. In 1913, they swore allegiance to King Abd al-Aziz (the kingdom’s founder, who was then sultan of Nejd), in exchange for a promise made by him to guarantee their safety and freedom of expression, once the desert was united. This was done despite promises by the British to grant them protectorate status, similar to the one according to the small Persian Gulf sheikhdoms.

Abd al-Aziz honored his initial promise, yet reneged on his promises when creating Saudi Arabia in 1925. Matters remained strained, more or less, throughout the 20th century, and in 1993 an agreement was reached between expatriate Saudi Shi’ites and King Fahd. They promised to halt opposition activities from abroad, urge Shi’ite activists to return to Saudi Arabia, in exchange for an amnesty by the king, and no more discrimination. This did not happen.

Today, fears are heightened that the Shi’ites of Saudi Arabia will be influenced, funded or helped by the victorious Shi’ites of Iraq. The Saudi Shi’ites, it must be noted, refused to cooperate with Iran when it called on them in 1980-88 to rebel against the House of Saud.

Shi’ites in the remainder of the Gulf are not as active, or as dangerous to established regimes, as they are in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Many have become active, however, since the rise of the Iraqi Shi’ites in 2003. In Yemen, the Shi’ites, who are 30% of the country’s 20 million, have also been highly influenced by the Iraq debacle. They live in tribal regions of Yemen, are heavily armed and are greatly underdeveloped. In 2004, seeing the benefits their co-religionaries were getting in Iraq, they launched a failed rebellion against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and it was suppressed by authorities, leading to the killing of more than 400 people.

In Kuwait, where the Shi’ites are 25% of Kuwait’s 2.2 million, they are loyal and in harmony with the established government, represented with five deputies in parliament, and until recently with Mohammad Abu al-Hassan, a Shi’ite, as minister of information. Matters became tense in 2004 when Yasser Habeeb, a Kuwaiti Shi’ite student activist, was arrested for distributing material offending leaders of the Sunni faith who were companions of the Prophet Mohammed. He was released in February 2004, but authorities tried to arrest him again, to no avail. The only two countries (in addition to Syria) with a significant Shi’ite majority, which nevertheless has no history of political ambitions, or activism, are Oman and the United Arab Emirates.

There is a fear rapidly creeping throughout the Arab world from the rising Shi’ite influence in the Middle East.

Shi’ite resurgence?

Two years after the fall of Saddam’s regime in Iraq, it is safe to ask: Who were the real victors in this bloody war of the Middle East in 2003? At first glance, the only victors were George W Bush and the neo-conservatives at the White House. A closer look would show, however, that Iran as well, ironically, has a lot to gain from the new Middle East.

Or more specifically, the real victors are the Shi’ites of Iran and the Muslim world. They will enjoy the fruits of the post-Saddam order long after Bush’s army leaves Iraq. This region, many fear, is now dominated by a “Shi’ite crescent” uniting the Shi’ites of Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and the Arab Gulf region.

Fear of this threat was first used by King Abdullah of Jordan in an interview with the Washington Post last December, arousing anger of the Shi’ite community in the Arab world. Actually, the fear of a “crescent” in this part of the world dates back to the 1950s, when Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Sa’id talked about a “fertile crescent” plan for the Middle East, to unite Iraq with Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan, in a federal union to be ruled by the Hashemite family in Baghdad.

This plan, lobbied for extensively in Amman and Baghdad, was received with cold shivers in Damascus, Beirut, Cairo and Riyadh. The “crescent” remains, but players and roles have shifted over the past 50 years. Today’s “crescent” is lobbied for extensively by its Iranian creator, and supported by Baghdad, parts of Beirut and Damascus, while it is being spurned in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and Kuwait.

Sami Moubayed is a Syrian political analyst.

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This world is NOW seeing the spirit of antichrist working in the actions of Islam!

Arab Spring Actions have emboldened Islamists worldwide to kill American Infidels.

Arab Spring revived-widened-deepened The Ancient Shia vs Sunni Schism Rift,

Which can only be united and held together by the hand of God on Islamist Hearts

And God’s prophecy pulls them down to their own destruction under Mahdi’s leadership

I do expect to see this Middle East war Begin After Obama Has departed his Office.

April 19, 2013

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Revelation 17:17 – For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Ezekiel 38:3-6,18-23 – And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [4] And I will turn thee back, AND PUT HOOKS INTO THY JAWS, AND I WILL BRING THEE FORTH, AND ALL THINE ARMY, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: [5] Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: [6] Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. [18] And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face. [19] For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; [20] So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. [21] And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother. [22] And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. [23] Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

After the death of Muhammad different opinions arose over the hadith (what those who knew him claimed they heard Muhammad speak during his life). This contributed to the Battle of Sattin, which caused the ancient initial crack that has been revived, widened, and deepened by Arab Spring.

Today the Shia and Sunni Sects are scattered worldwide, but exist as nations in the Old World, some as weak as Kuwait clay, and others as strong as Iranian iron. Iron and moist clay will hold together for a while, but under pressure will separate

Sunni and Shia Islam are the two major denominations of Islam. The demographic breakdown between the two denominations is difficult to assess and varies by source, but a good approximation is that 75–90% of the world’s Muslims are Sunni and 10–20% are Shia, with most Shias belonging to the Twelver tradition and the rest divided between several other groups.

Sunnis are a majority in most Muslim communities: in South East Asia, China, South Asia, Africa, and most of the Arab world. Shia make up the majority of the population in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, and Bahrain (all together called the Shia Crescent), while Pakistan has the second-largest Shia Muslim (Twelver) population in the world.

The historic background of the Sunni–Shia split lies in the schism that occurred when the Islamic prophet Muhammad died in the year 632, leading to a dispute over succession to Muhammad as a caliph of the Islamic community spread across various parts of the world which led to the Battle of Siffin. Sectarian violence persists to this day from Pakistan to Yemen and is a major element of friction throughout the Middle East.

Over the years, Sunni–Shia relations have been marked by both cooperation and conflict. Tensions between communities can intensify during power struggles, such as the Bahraini uprising, Syrian civil war or the 2003 Iraq War. Today there are differences in religious practice, traditions and customs, often related to jurisprudence. Although all Muslim groups consider the Quran to be divine, Sunni and Shia have different opinions on hadith.

Revelation 17:12,13,17 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. [17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Daniel 2:42-44 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Revelation 19:19-21 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert

Geneive Abdo

Saban Center-Brookings Institution

Tehran’s tendency to see the Arab uprisings in its own terms is more strategic spin rather than an accurate reading of events. The Arab uprisings are the very definition of local politics and represent a significant break with a past largely dictated by outside forces, foreign policy considerations, and proxy contests between rival regional and global forces. In other words, it is domestic politics that now drives foreign policy – not the other way around.

Any dream that the uprisings would spawn a new era of pan-Islamism has been dashed by the Syrian war, which has revived the central narrative of Shia-Sunni conflict that has raged off and on for centuries. The wave of Arab uprisings has deepened ethnic and religious tensions between Sunni and Shia, which had been largely contained in recent years, and pushed them once again to the fore.

As a result, a strong argument can be made that the Shia-Sunni divide is well on its way to displacing the broader conflict between Muslims and the West as the primary challenge facing the Islamic societies of the Middle East for the foreseeable future.

Such sectarian conflict is also likely to supplant the Palestinian occupation as the central mobilizing factor for Arab political life. As Arab societies become more politically active and aware at home in the aftermath of the uprisings, fighting Israel is less of a priority, especially because there are so many domestic crises.

The writer, a nonresident fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and a fellow in the Middle East program at the Stimson Center, was a foreign correspondent for 20 years, focusing on the Middle East and the Muslim world.

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Israel Flies on the Shoulders of Uncircumcised Gentile Philistines

At Armageddon to Victory Which Initiates 2nd Advent Millennium

On a Tectonically generated Landscape prepared by God’s Hand

During 3 And ½ Years Of Tribulation Prior To Armageddon Battle!

Part 5

This series is a line by line exposition of ISAIAH 11:10-16

April 18, 2013

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ISAIAH 11:10 – And in that day there shall be a ROOT of Jesse, which shall STAND for an ENSIGN of the PEOPLE; to IT shall the Gentiles SEEK: and HIS REST shall be glorious. (Root means to “shoot forth from the root”)

“HIS MILLENNIAL REST WILL BE GLORIOUS IN A 2ND GATHERING

ISRAEL’S GREATEST REGATHERING OCCURS AFTER 2ND ADVENT!

ISAIAH 11:11 – And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

CONTINUED FROM PARTS 1 THROUGH 4

CHRIST’S 2ND ADVENT WILL BE SEEN BY ALL THE NATIONS

ISAIAH 11:12 – And he shall set up an ENSIGN for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

ENSIGN – A Banner, Sign, or Memorial lifted up enough so that its intended audience may see it.

Revelation 1:7 – Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

The ENSIGN is Son of man 2nd Advent Sign appearing in the heavens

Matthew 24:29-31 – Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: [30] And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. [31] And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

7 Instances of “ENSIGN” IN Isaiah

Isaiah 5:26 – And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

ISAIAH 11:10 – And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

ISAIAH 11:12 – And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 18:3 – All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

Isaiah 30:17 – One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.

Isaiah 2:1-4 – The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. [2] And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. [3] And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. [4] And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah 12:1-6 – And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. [2] Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. [3] Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. [4] And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. [5] Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth. [6] Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.