(OPINION) MS – After the events that we witnessed on Tuesday, there will be no going back to the way things used to be. A cataclysmic war in the Middle East is not going to benefit anyone, but at this point, it is difficult to see how one will be avoided. By directly attacking the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, the Iranians and their allies crossed all the red lines. The U.S. embassy is considered to be U.S. soil, and if President Trump does not respond militarily to this brazen attack on our sovereignty he is going to look like a total wimp to the rest of the world. But then, of course, Iran and their allies will respond to the attack that Trump launches, and the U.S. will be forced to escalate the conflict even more. Unfortunately, the mainstream media is not accurately conveying the seriousness of this crisis to the American people.

A lot of pundits in the western world seem to be convinced that Iran doesn’t want a war any more than we do. But maybe they do. Iran’s leaders are a bunch of apocalyptic nutjobs that believe that a massive war will usher in the return of “the Mahdi”, and many of them are convinced that the time for this to happen is very near.  For those that are not familiar with what Shiite Muslims believe about “the Mahdi”, here is a pretty good summary… They believe that a series of Imams was appointed to carry on the Prophet Muhammad’s message and that these Imam rank above all other prophets except for Muhammad himself.

The 12th, Muhammad al-Mahdi, is believed by these Shiites to have been born in present-day Iraq in 869 and never to have died, only gone into hiding. Twelvers—not other Shiites or Sunni Muslims—believe that al-Mahdi will return as a messiah with Jesus to bring peace to the world and establish Islam as the ruling faith across the globe. The apocalyptic catch? The Mahdi is expected to appear when the world is wracked by utter chaos and war. READ MORE


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