IBDaMann
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Forget all the confusing history of Israel and Gaza and the Palestinian State behind which everyone is hiding. None of it matters to any substantive degree. Really. None of it. The "why" behind it all is nothing that is discussed in the US, Western Europe, or anywhere in the West in general, so it might very well come as news. There are two main branches of Islam, i.e. Sunni and Shia. The Shia are at issue here, as is Iran, the single largest Shia population. Shia are "twelvers" which distinguishes them from other branches of Islam. They believe there were only twelve "imams" (to Shia, this term means more than just a preacher in a mosque; it means "Lieutenant of Allah" and is nothing less that a divine leader who must be OBEYED). So Shia/twelvers believe that there were twelve of these divine "imams" after Mohammed, ... but that the twelfth never died, i.e. he went into hiding until the end of times, to return, with Jesus (Muslims consider Jesus to have been a prophet of Allah) to lead the Muslim world against Satan in the same kind of Rapture story you find in Revelation.
Enter Iran.
The Ayatollah of Iran desperately wants to declare to the Muslim world that he is the twelfth imam who is now revealing himself to lead them all. The Ayatollah wants it so badly that he can taste it. His entire life's focus is on this and nothing else ... but the damn prophesy specifies that this can only happen upon the destruction of Israel. This is why Iran has been funding Hezbollah and Hamas to send rockets into Israel for decades. The previous Ayatollah likewise was obsessed with being able to declare that he is the returning imam, i.e. all hail Dorothy, the wicked Israel is dead! ... but he died never achieving the grand prize. This current matter with Hamas was just the latest attempt to get sufficient "destruction" and "billowing smoke" onto the 5-O'clock news in order to make a plausible claim that Israel has been destroyed, and for the Ayatollah to announce "The house of David is dead and oh, by the way, I'm the twelfth imam!" Israel understands exactly what is going on, and intelligently moved to nip this in the bud immediately. By very publicly "declaring war" with military maneuvers broadcast internationally on the news and in social media, Israel is making a vociferous and visibly indisputable showing that they haven't been destroyed and nope, there can be no revealing of any imams today.
The Ayatollah is driven by lust for power, and transforming into the twelfth imam seems so feasible, i.e. fund Hamas and Hezbollah and let them deliver divinity unto thee. But on top of all this, Iranians are not Arabs, and Iran has historically HATED the idea that Islam is owned by Arabs, specifically Saudi Arabia. Westerners don't readily understand this concept of a country owning a religion, but Saudi Arabia controls everything about the faith, e.g. they own Mecca and the pilgrimage, they own Medina, they control when the eids begin and end for all Muslims around the world, they control the language of the religion (i.e. relegating non-Arabic-speakers to memorizing and regurgitating the Q'ran in Arabic, even if they have no idea what any of it means), which sides Allah takes on political issues, etc. Iranians would sell their own kidneys to reverse that and make Islam more Iran/Farsi-centric. If the Ayatollah were to pull that off, he would become an immortalized hero solely on that account.
That's the long and short of what is going on, and of what has been going on. I know, I know ... you were sure that it was all about Palestine. Nope.
Enter Iran.
The Ayatollah of Iran desperately wants to declare to the Muslim world that he is the twelfth imam who is now revealing himself to lead them all. The Ayatollah wants it so badly that he can taste it. His entire life's focus is on this and nothing else ... but the damn prophesy specifies that this can only happen upon the destruction of Israel. This is why Iran has been funding Hezbollah and Hamas to send rockets into Israel for decades. The previous Ayatollah likewise was obsessed with being able to declare that he is the returning imam, i.e. all hail Dorothy, the wicked Israel is dead! ... but he died never achieving the grand prize. This current matter with Hamas was just the latest attempt to get sufficient "destruction" and "billowing smoke" onto the 5-O'clock news in order to make a plausible claim that Israel has been destroyed, and for the Ayatollah to announce "The house of David is dead and oh, by the way, I'm the twelfth imam!" Israel understands exactly what is going on, and intelligently moved to nip this in the bud immediately. By very publicly "declaring war" with military maneuvers broadcast internationally on the news and in social media, Israel is making a vociferous and visibly indisputable showing that they haven't been destroyed and nope, there can be no revealing of any imams today.
The Ayatollah is driven by lust for power, and transforming into the twelfth imam seems so feasible, i.e. fund Hamas and Hezbollah and let them deliver divinity unto thee. But on top of all this, Iranians are not Arabs, and Iran has historically HATED the idea that Islam is owned by Arabs, specifically Saudi Arabia. Westerners don't readily understand this concept of a country owning a religion, but Saudi Arabia controls everything about the faith, e.g. they own Mecca and the pilgrimage, they own Medina, they control when the eids begin and end for all Muslims around the world, they control the language of the religion (i.e. relegating non-Arabic-speakers to memorizing and regurgitating the Q'ran in Arabic, even if they have no idea what any of it means), which sides Allah takes on political issues, etc. Iranians would sell their own kidneys to reverse that and make Islam more Iran/Farsi-centric. If the Ayatollah were to pull that off, he would become an immortalized hero solely on that account.
That's the long and short of what is going on, and of what has been going on. I know, I know ... you were sure that it was all about Palestine. Nope.
