{"id":7268,"date":"2008-11-11T14:39:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T22:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7268"},"modified":"2008-11-11T14:39:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T22:39:23","slug":"is-the-end-nigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7268","title":{"rendered":"Is The End Nigh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/Articles\/Read.aspx?GUID=EA4843C0-7752-4A26-903D-5916574D86CD\">Daniel Pipes writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\" class=\"backcontent\" id=\"backCon\">Ali ibn Abi-Talib, the seventh-century figure central to Shiite Islam, is said to have predicted when the world will end, columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2008\/10\/26\/obama-iran-ahmadinejad-oped-cx_at_1026taheri_print.html\">Amir Taheri<\/a> points out. A &quot;tall black man&quot; commanding &quot;the strongest army on earth&quot; will take power &quot;in the west.&quot; He will carry &quot;a clear sign&quot; from the third imam, Hussein. Ali says of the tall black man: &quot;Shiites should have no doubt that he is with us.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\" class=\"backcontent\" id=\"backCon\"><em>Barack Hussein<\/em> in Arabic means &quot;the blessing of Hussein.&quot; In Persian, <em>Obama<\/em> translates as &quot;He [is] with us.&quot; Thus does the name of the presumptive American president-elect, when combined with his physical attributes and geography, suggest that the End of Times is nigh &ndash; precisely what Iranian president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielpipes.org\/article\/3258\">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<\/a> has been predicting. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Pipes writes: Ali ibn Abi-Talib, the seventh-century figure central to Shiite Islam, is said to have predicted when the world will end, columnist Amir Taheri points out. A &quot;tall black man&quot; commanding &quot;the strongest army on earth&quot; will take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7268\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,139],"tags":[14212,13060,13058,13061,13059,14211],"class_list":["post-7268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-islam","tag-imam-hussein","tag-iranian-president-mahmoud","tag-iranian-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad","tag-mahmoud-ahmadinejad","tag-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad","tag-shiite-islam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}