I thought this stuff was going to cage and cage alone?
I thought this stuff was going to cage and cage alone?
So did I, I see your problem but i'm trying to help you out here, you really need to take this up with Marty, you see I ask him to back his stuff up, provide his favorite quotes out of the Koran and when he can't he starts in whining about faults and why I can't admit mine etc. etc.
Its all very bizarre even for Marty.
Really i'm trying to stay on topic up here.
research "Mahdi"
al-Mahdi is "the rightly-guided one" who, according to Islamic Hadiths (traditions), will come before the end of time to make the entire world Muslim. Over the last 1400 years numerous claimants to the mantle of the Mahdi have arisen in both Shi`i and Sunni circles. Modern belief in the coming of the Mahdi has manifested most famously in the 1979 al-`Utaybi uprising of Sa`udi Arabia, and most recently in the ongoing Mahdist movements (some violent) in Iraq, as well as in the frequently-expressed public prayers of Iranian President Ahmadinezhad bidding the Mahdi to return and, in the larger Sunni Islamic world, by claims that Usamah bin Ladin might be the Mahdi. This site will track such Mahdi-related movements, aspirations, propaganda and beliefs in both Sunni and Shi`i milieus, as well as other Muslim eschatological yearnings.
http://www.mahdiwatch.org/
Last edited by Yurt; 03-17-2008 at 09:30 PM.
if one looks at the advent of christianity, the very beginning and compares that with the advent of islam, you cannot objectively compare the first, second, or third centuries. the crusades came close to a 1000 years after the advent of christianity.
i took a poll in a muslim forum last year: my poll was, "Islam's goal is to have the world under the control of Islam"
View Poll Results: Islam's goal is to have the _______ world under Islam
Entire 134 81.71%
Majority 2 1.22%
Just the current "islamic part" 9 5.49%
None, for the people to decide 19 11.59%
Voters: 164. You have already voted on this poll
here is a very watered down comparison, if you read the history, the profit went to war almost immediately. he ran at first, but as soon as his following increased, he attacked and never stopped.
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~andrew/w...e_timeline.htm