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Originally posted by stevcolx
Really? Illuminati handshakes are rife with the elite. How about the Illuminati Salute?
Definition: 'A Sign Of Recognition Of Those In The Occult'!!
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Originally posted by DEEZNUTZ
reply to post by ModernAcademia
He calls out the failures of US policy and his accessement of the failures in Iraq are bang on. The Karzai Gov't is more than likely going to fail and Afghanistan will be forced into another election this time the Radicals might get the popular vote and then the US would really have to show it's hypocracy by getting rid of those "Freedom Hatin'" Radicals even though the people want those in power.
Originally posted by nightbringr
A "good" president would make reforms to allow women to vote, be seen in public without face veils, or to appear in public at all for that matter. I would expect most of the Ahmadinejad supporters on this forum to also support appartheid when it reined in South Africa. Whats the difference? Iran doesnt allow women to vote, they didnt allow Blacks to vote. You people are ignorant hypocrites. On one hand you berate the USA for treating others badly, then you praise what is essentially a dictator (due to their sham of an election) for doing the same, but much worse and not even bothering to try and hide their brutality. '
What do you suggest a countries leader force laws that are totally against their religion? I certainly think he could be a better leader...but so could all the other world leaders..basically they all stink but why be hypocritical? We would not tolerate a leader who went against our moral values here either. religions stink, leaders stink, politicians stink all in general of course. People go on about how he says horrible things about the USA, well how would you like to be labeled "Evil" by a world leader?
Originally posted by nightbringr
Um what? Your afraid to call a spade a spade. Just because THEY believe that women should wear veils, be subservient to men and have no rights that makes it ok? I think not. I know its wrong, and you should know its wrong. Because Islam says women are second class compared to men? That makes it ok? No, it doesnt. If you honestly believe its ok for them to do that because thats how their god wants it, you might wanna give your head a shake. Its wrong, plain and simple. Women are not animals.
Not since the prime minister of the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada presented an address claiming that UFOs posed a mortal threat to the future of mankind has the United Nations been treated to such a bizarre spectacle.
Many people believe the greatest threat to world peace concerns Iran's nuclear programme, so there was understandably great interest at this week's general assembly in New York when the country's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, took the platform.
But instead of seeking to reassure delegates that Iran's nuclear intentions were purely benign, Mr Ahmadinejad took advantage of his official visit to a country deemed – in the lexicon of the Iranian Revolution – "the Great Satan" to embark on a discourse about the wonders of the 12th Imam.
For those unacquainted with the more obscure tenets of Islamic theology, the 12th Imam is held by devout Shi'ite Muslims to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed who went into "occlusion" in the ninth century at the age of five and hasn't been seen since.
The Hidden Imam, as he is also known by his followers, will only return after a period of cosmic chaos, war and bloodshed – what Christians call the Apocalypse – and then lead the world into an era of universal peace.
Rumours abound of Mr Ahmadinejad's devotion to the 12th Imam, and last year it was reported that he had persuaded his cabinet to sign a "contract" pledging themselves to work for his return.
Another example of his messianic tendencies surfaced after 108 people were killed in an aircraft crash in Teheran. Mr Ahmadinejad praised the victims, saying: "What is important is that they have shown the way to martyrdom which we must follow."
For many of the hundreds of delegates who attended Mr Ahmadinejad's speech to the UN this week, his discourse on the merits of the 12th Imam finally brought home the reality of the danger his regime poses to world peace.
Rather than allaying concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions, Mr Ahmadinejad spoke at length about how a Muslim saviour would relieve the world's suffering.
The era of Western predominance was drawing to a close, he said, and would soon be replaced by a "bright future" ushered in by the 12th Imam's return. "Without any doubt, the Promised One, who is the ultimate Saviour, will come. The pleasing aroma of justice will permeate the whole world."
The really alarming aspect is that – if the world's leading intelligence agencies are to be believed – he is seriously attempting to acquire a nuclear weapons arsenal.
Only yesterday, the opposition group that first revealed the existence of Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz claimed that Iran was building a new bomb-proof underground site for developing nuclear weapons.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said the regime was near to completing a vast underground chamber that was linked by two tunnels to the existing complex at Natanz, and was protected against aerial attack.
As with so many of the allegations relating to Iran's nuclear activities, the NCRI's claims are impossible to verify, not least because Iran continues to impede UN nuclear inspectors.
And even if, as Mr Ahmadinejad claimed in New York, Iran has no interest in developing nuclear weapons, there is every indication that Teheran is preparing itself for war, not least because the clash with Western civilisation that the Iranian president so obviously desires will hasten, or so he believes, the arrival of the 12th Imam.
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Mr Safavi, who commanded the guards for 10 years, is understood to have fallen out with Mr Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's spiritual leader, after he argued that the guards were too weak to repel an attack from abroad.
Mr Safavi was also criticised within the regime for failing to establish effective supply lines between Teheran and Hizbollah, the Iranian-funded militia in southern Lebanon. A train carrying vital military supplies for Hizbollah from Iran to Syria blew up in mysterious circumstances last May in northern Turkey, severely disrupting Iran's attempts to re-arm Hizbollah following last year's war with Israel.
And, unlike his predecessor, Mr Jaafari is bullish about the Revolutionary Guards' capacity to defend Iran from attack. He attracted international attention this year when he boasted that more than 50,000 volunteers were being trained in Iran to carry out "martyrdom-seeking operations" against the West.
Just the kind of carnage Mr Ahmadinejad believes will hasten the arrival of the 12th Imam.
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83 (New International Version)
Psalm 83
A song. A psalm of Asaph.
1 O God, do not keep silent;
be not quiet, O God, be not still.
2 See how your enemies are astir,
how your foes rear their heads.
3 With cunning they conspire against your people;
they plot against those you cherish.
4 "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation,
that the name of Israel be remembered no more."
5 With one mind they plot together;
they form an alliance against you-
6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
of Moab and the Hagrites,
7 Gebal, [a] Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
8 Even Assyria has joined them
to lend strength to the descendants of Lot.
Selah
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