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Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
Nice twist you added on this FF
Originally posted by insaan
The 12 imam? I don't understand what the 12 imam belief has to do with Iran's preparation?
they feel the urge to demonize and dehumanize other people's faiths in order to feel some sense of superiority and sanity.
Originally posted by TupacShakur
But we know about these secret meetings?
Originally posted by sHuRuLuNi
We believe in ALL THE PROPHETS. We make no distinctions among them.
And the point is: we believe them to be PROPHETS, not "divine", nor supermen, just prophets of God.
Originally posted by sHuRuLuNi
the books you are basing your belief on have been shown without a shadow of a doubt, to be books written by anonymous writers, edited, copied and changed countless times .... So, as you can see, our claim "does not make sense" to you, because you have never bothered to check your scripture first and then see just how illogical, inconsistent and nonsensical it is.
Originally posted by superman2012
Everyone has been on threads (including FF) where I have pointed out to them that the 12th Imam will be coming "when the world breaks out in civil war for no reason. If they are the cause of the "reason" than that would be against their religion.
Originally posted by jondave
IF Iran gets the bomb its all over. Please Israel, nuke Iran, nobody in North America will mind ,much.
Originally posted by bluemirage5
The only "Iman" heading Iran's way would be the strongest and most powerful bunker bomb ever built.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by sHuRuLuNi
the books you are basing your belief on have been shown without a shadow of a doubt, to be books written by anonymous writers, edited, copied and changed countless times .... So, as you can see, our claim "does not make sense" to you, because you have never bothered to check your scripture first and then see just how illogical, inconsistent and nonsensical it is.
Do you REALLY want to go there? The Qu'ran is nothing more than bits and pieces of other religions that were stolen and sewn together by liars, thieves and murderers. It's so full of contradictions and scientific and historical errors that it is IMPOSSIBLE to buy any of it.
Contradictions and Errors in the Qu'ran
Questions Muslim Scholars Can Not Answer
1000 errors in the Qu'ran
Historical Errors in the Qu'ran
So do you believe that the devil lives in a mans nose??
Originally posted by theBigToe
reply to post by mayabong
Israel is a secular government. Its not a theocracy.
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
- Benjamin Netanyahu
My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Originally posted by Magnum007
Should I add more? Or is this enough?
Originally posted by FlyersFan
So you can see why Christians and Muslims do NOT worship the same God ..
Originally posted by theBigToe
reply to post by sHuRuLuNi
You worship a delusion...
Originally posted by Magnum007
reply to post by sHuRuLuNi
We should dream up a place based on another fictional book, displace people, then blame those same people for fighting back to get their land back by using gorilla warfare...
Wouldn't that be grand?
suggesting that they are a threat in a way that merits a direct military response is ludicrous. Yes, Nukes are bad, but we have not budged an inch when other countries pursued that technology, so why now with Iran.
I say that the motives for the concern are actually financially based. The threat is no less than if any other nation had them, and as of yet we have only taken such a strong stance against Iran. It seems to me that the sudden turn in favor by most countries in that region of the world to supersede the Dollar as a form of trade settlement is no coincidence.
If not we would have been more aggressive with other countries, like North Korea for example, Yet we are not sending carriers there to dissuade them from doing what they do. Why?
I did not call you a war monger, I actually agree that no country should have nukes. The solution is not military intervention or police actions against them.
As far as the nuclear question and its implications, I'll allow you to argue with Israeli military intelligence experts - who, no offense, I would assume have likely much better qualifications than yourself as well as a better grasp on the situation given proximity to the matter
Zeevi Farkash, Israel’s former military intelligence chief, has said that Iran’s main drive for acquiring atomic weapons is not for use against Israel but as a deterrent against U.S. intervention, in much the same way that nuclear-armed North Korea feels secure against a U.S. attack.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (HEARING TO RECEIVE TESTIMONY ON THE CURRENT AND FUTURE WORLDWIDE THREATS TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES - THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2011 - U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, Washington, DC. -
Chairman LEVIN. Now, relative to Iran, Director Clapper, you mentioned in your statement that you do not, we do not know, talking about the Intelligence Community, if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons. I read into that that Iran has not made a decision as of this point to restart its nuclear weapons program. Is that correct?
Mr. CLAPPER. Yes, sir. I would like, though, to defer a more fulsome response to a closed session.
Chairman LEVIN. Okay. But, what is level of confidence that you have that as of this time they have not decided to restart that program? Is that a high level of confidence?
Mr. CLAPPER. Yes, it is.
Former IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei
“During my time at the agency,” ElBaradei told me in an earlier interview, “we haven’t seen a shred of evidence that Iran has been weaponizing, in terms of building nuclear-weapons facilities and using enriched materials.” There is evidence that Iranian scientists have studied the issues involved in building and delivering a bomb, he added, “but the American N.I.E. reported that it stopped even those studies in 2003.”
A former UK Ambassador to Iran, Sir Richard Dalton, says in his article here pretty much the same things I've been reporting elsewhere - our policies are somewhat to blame, Iran has previously been more helpful on the matter than we've given them credit for, and there is no evidence Iran's building the bomb:
So is Iran attempting to build a nuclear weapon? For at least three years, the US intelligence community has discounted this hypothesis. The US director of national intelligence, James Clapper, testified last February to Congress: "We continue to assess [whether] Iran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons … We do not know, however, if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons."
Most experts, even in Israel, view Iran as striving to become a "threshold country", technically able to produce a nuclear weapon but abstaining from doing so for now. Again, nothing in international law forbids this ambition. Several other countries are close to, or have already reached, such a threshold, with a commitment not to acquire nuclear weapons. Nobody seems to bother them.
We often hear that Iran's refusal to negotiate seriously left our countries no other choice but to drag it in 2006 to the security council. Here too, things are not quite that clear. In 2005 Iran was ready to discuss an upper limit for the number of its centrifuges and to maintain its rate of enrichment far below the high levels necessary for weapons. Tehran also expressed its readiness to allow intrusive inspections, even in non-declared sites. But at that time Europe and the US wanted to compel Iran to ditch its enrichment programme entirely.
My recent comment piece explaining how Iran's president was badly misquoted when he allegedly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" has caused a welcome little storm. The phrase has been seized on by western and Israeli hawks to re-double suspicions of the Iranian government's intentions, so it is important to get the truth of what he really said.
I took my translation - "the regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time" - from the indefatigable Professor Juan Cole's website where it has been for several weeks.
But it seems to be mainly thanks to the Guardian giving it prominence that the New York Times, which was one of the first papers to misquote Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, came out on Sunday with a defensive piece attempting to justify its reporter's original "wiped off the map" translation. (By the way, for Farsi speakers the original version is available here.)
Joining the "off the map" crowd is David Aaronovitch, a columnist on the Times (of London), who attacked my analysis yesterday. I won't waste time on him since his knowledge of Farsi is as minimal as that of his Latin. The poor man thinks the plural of casus belli is casi belli, unaware that casus is fourth declension with the plural casus (long u).
Ahmadinejad stressed "Our dear Imam [Khomeini] ordered that the occupying regime in Jerusalem be wiped off the face of the earth. This was a very wise statement. The issue of Palestine is not one which we could compromise on... I warn the heads of all nations of the Islamic world to beware of this trap. If some, who are under pressure by the dominating powers, follow a misguided policy or are naive, or selfish or have earthly desires, recognize this regime (Israel), they should know that they would be burnt in the fire of the Islamic Ummah (Nation) and will bear an eternal stigma on their foreheads." He further expressed his firm belief that the new wave of confrontations generated in Palestine and the growing turmoil in the Islamic world would in no time wipe Israel away.
On 26 October 2005 Islamic Revolutionary Guards spokesman Seyyed Massoud Jazayeri said "If this cancer (Israel) is not removed from the Islamic world, Muslims will sustain immense harm... This wound was opened more than half a century ago and has still not been healed, because in the Islamic world, some leaders and regimes, which have not been democratically elected by their own people, continue to rule, with the help of Western imperialism. A world without Zionism, and the obliteration of Israel from the face of the earth, is not only the objective of Iran, but of the whole Muslim world."
I am hopeful that just as the Palestinian nation continued its struggle for the past ten years, it will continue to maintain its awareness and vigilance. This phase is going to be short-lived. If we put it behind us successfully, God willing, it will pave the way for the annihilation of the Zionist regime and it will be a downhill route.
I warn all the leaders in the Islamic world to beware of this conspiracy. If any of them takes a step towards the recognition of this regime [Israel">, then he will burn in the fire of the Islamic umma (nation) and will have eternal shame stamped on his forehead, regardless of whether he did this under pressure by the dominant powers, or lack of understanding or naiveté or selfishness or worldly incentives.
The issue of Palestine is the issue of the Islamic world. Those who are closeted behind closed doors cannot make decisions on this issue and the Islamic nation does not allow this historical enemy to exist at the heart of the Islamic world.