King Abdullah’s Death Fulfills ‘End-Time Prophecies,’ Say Shiites
As Joel Rosenberg, former aide to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said,
“n order to bring about this Islamic messiah, the Mahdi, the 12th imam,
Islamic leaders need to hasten his coming by destroying little Satan, Israel,
and the great Satan, the United States. …
[T]he leaders actually believe they need to create bloody carnage, the death of
millions of people in order to create the conditions for the Mahdi to bring peace.”
Most Twelvers are in Iran. The cia World Factbook says 90 to 95 percent of Iran’s
81 million people identify as Shiite, and around 85 percent of those adhere to Twelver Shiism.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the patriarch of Iran’s Islamic Revolution,
was a Twelver, as is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the current supreme leader.
In 2012, Khamenei told the people of Iran: “We must prepare for the coming.
Since we consider ourselves the warriors of the 12th imam, we must fight.
Under the leadership of God, and with his invisible Power, we will restore
the glory of Islamic Civilization.”
Meanwhile, Iran’s centerfuges are spinning as the nation steadily works
toward the development of a nuclear arsenal.
Could some Shiites who believe that the death of King Abdullah is
a trigger to the return of Mahdi now be more motivated to stir up chaos?