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Islamists Gather For Muhammad’s Armageddon
ISLAMISTS GATHER TO FIGHT MUHAMMAD’S PROMISED ARMAGEDDON
‘There are many, many Muslims that believe the end times are here’
WND
Opposing Muslim interests are sending hundreds, maybe thousands of Islamic jihadists to Syria to fight for, or against, President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. There are estimates that 140,000 people already have been killed, some under incredibly gruesome circumstances in what was described as a slaughterhouse for Christians, in the three-year-old war.
Observers say there seems to be something beyond a political fight in the nation that dates backs thousands of years into history.
And maybe there is.
“The story is simply this,” said Middle East expert and theologian Joel Richardson. “While many Christians today are wondering if we’re in the end times, or approaching the end times, there are many, many Muslims throughout the earth today that believe the end times are here.”
The result, he said, is that the Syrian conflict is not a civil war, but is it being “perceived by both sides as being a sign of the soon coming of the final apocalyptic wars.”
Richardson is not unfamiliar with the ideas, having produced “Islam and the End Times” DVDs and having written “The Islamic Antichrist,”which argues simply that the biblical prophecy about the end of the world will be triggered by an Antichrist from the Islamic world.
He explains that some Muslims believe just before Mahdi, Islam’s end times imam, arrives on earth, there will be the Sufyani, a predicted Muslim tyrant who will spread corruption, mischief and terror, killing children and women.
The belief is that the Sufyani is one of characters the Madhi will have to defeat.
Richardson said members of both sides fighting in Syria now apparently believe the other side includes the Sufyani, and they are intent on killing him to usher in the Madhi.
“They believe they are part of that final Muslim army,” Richardson said. That means, within Islam, “There’s a heightened motivation to die in the battle.”
Reposted with permission
