30 August 2007

If you thought it was only Christanity that had scary doomsday cults...

...think again. The Shi'as believe that Imam Mahdi (aka the Hidden Imam) will become visible again, he has remained alive but invisible for the past eleven hundred years, "only when corruption and injustice reach their zenith" or next Tuesday as we now know it.

The good news is that he reemergence is one of the fifteen benchmarks, of eighteen, that the Iraqi government has failed to meet so if you do spot him it could be proof that the surge is working.

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