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The real war is the war of narrative

Edit Dawn 14 Jan 2016
Today, we have a developed popular narrative which says that Islam is in danger, that Pakistan is about to break; all of this is linked to belief in the end of time ... All faiths have eschatological predictions ... Islam is in danger. ... Islamic eschatology predicts the arrival of an Antichrist called Dajjal, and it is said that whoever chooses to side with him will never be forgiven ... Muslim ideal is a pan-Islamic Caliphate. ... Political Islam....

ISIS in the World’s Largest Muslim Country

Edit The Atlantic 03 Jan 2016
... Sunni Muslims there, to the prospect of restoring an Islamic caliphate, to the fact that “Syria is directly linked to predictions in Islamic eschatology that the final battle at the end of time will take place in Sham, the region sometimes called Greater Syria or the Levant, encompassing Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel.”....

ISIS Seeks To Usher In Isa’s or Jesus’s Return At Damascus In Apocalyptic World War

Edit Inquisitr 01 Jan 2016
Isis is determined to resurrect an Islamic Caliphate ... They have seized the opportunity afforded by the ongoing civil war in Syria to hasten the return of Isa (Jesus), as Jesus is referred to in Islamic literature ... These concepts and ideas may not mean much on the surface to western minds that are unfamiliar with narratives present in Islamic Eschatology....

Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world

Edit The Guardian 03 Jul 2015
Herbert hired a Cessna light aircraft to survey the scene from the air ... *** ... Herbert freely mixes elements of Zen into their belief system, and also, intriguingly, suggests that their messianic eschatology – the sense in which they were “waiting” for Paul – may have been seeded in previous millennia by the Bene Gesserit order as part of its murky eugenic plans ... In Islamic eschatology, the honorific Mahdi has a long and complex history ... ....

Pluralism in Islam -- Between Scripture and Praxis

Edit Huffington Post 30 Jun 2015
A version of this article first appeared in the July/August issue of Islamic Horizons ... Thus, ideas about pluralism is not alien to Islam ... Neglecting the pluralistic message of the Quran has allowed fringe groups to use anachronistic stereotypes about fellow Muslims, people of other faiths and entire nation-states, to unleash a form of violence rooted in extreme interpretations of Islamic eschatology (the study of end-of-time)....

'We're coming close to end of human history'

Edit WorldNetDaily 27 May 2015
... figure is alive and well on planet Earth and that he is in communication with angels about his imminent appearance to the world; Sheik Ekrima Said Sabri, the son of the late and notorious grand mufti of Jerusalem, who explains the Islamic eschatological belief that Jesus will return to lead a caliphate and require Christians to convert to Islam....

Is U.S. enabling a Middle East apocalypse? Part 2

Edit WorldNetDaily 27 Apr 2015
This week, in Part 2, I will describe how the White House is playing into the eschatology plans of ISIS and particularly the Muslim view of the apocalypse ... His article is a must-read for anyone truly seeking to understand ISIS and Islam’s ultimate intent ... The identity of Rome is debated in Islamic eschatology ... It is no coincidence that Syria has such prominence in Islamic eschatology....

Rush Limbaugh: '12th imam' like 'Antichrist'

Edit WorldNetDaily 27 Mar 2015
As the author of “The Islamic Antichrist,” the first book to have popularized Islamic eschatology, I’ve heard many prominent voices discussing the content of my book, and it’s always gratifying.” ... Joel Richardson… has produced a book which uses extensive (and fully in-context) quotations from both Islamic and Christian ......

This book predicted today's Mideast showdown

Edit WorldNetDaily 03 Mar 2015
Richardson points that even as the Shiite Iranian Islamic Republic is acting on its own vision of the final battle, the Sunni-run terrorist group ISIS also seems to be driven by eschatology ... Politicians, military officers, strategists and geopolitical analysts suddenly need to understand Islamic eschatology ... that pays increased attention to Islam....

ISIL is a complex group – it’s time we realised that

Edit TheNational 24 Feb 2015
It employs Islamic eschatological ideas but only as part of its wider religious and political project ... It is the caliphate, or the Islamic state, that draws the attention of new recruits and invigorates them to fight for the group ... ISIL uses messianic ideas to inspire its followers to look forward to future prophecies, but also uses Islamic events and ideas to encourage its members to look back at an imagined glorious past ... On Twitter ... ....

Muslims Predict Jesus Will Defeat ISIS, Beginning in 2015

Edit Huffington Post 24 Feb 2015
At the same time, mainstream orthodox Muslim websites are already predicting Jesus' return as early as 2022, starting an Islamic prophetic clock set to run over the next 7 years, in the purportedly rapidly approaching run-up to Armageddon ... But even if we considered that they might be right about the impending apocalypse, what sort of events should the next few years bring according to confirmed Islamic eschatology?....

ISIS is accomplishing its goals

Edit The Examiner 21 Feb 2015
Any fallacy that only the traditional religions as Christianity or Islam are the main problems of world peace was swept way when an angry atheist executed three Muslims in a hate crime in North Carolina ... If ISIS is not Islamic, then ... Creating a climate for World War 3 will usher in the appearance of the Islamic Mahdi according to Islamic eschatology....

Will It Take The End of the World For Obama To Recognize ISIS?

Edit The Daily Beast 20 Feb 2015
Chasing the apocalypse, according to Islamic eschatology—the study of end of the world ... Chasing the apocalypse, according to Islamic eschatology—the study of end of the world ... Islamic eschatology, based on hadith, ... There, according to Islamic eschatology, the Mahdi will ask Jesus to lead the prayer, but Jesus will say, “No,” and pray behind the Mahdi....
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