THE 12th IMAM , DID ISLAM KILL THEIR OWN MESSIAH?

When talking about Islam, it is good to make a distinction between sunnites and sji'ites. It's the same duality, you find every in history. Sunnites being more worldly, formal, governmental and urban. Sji'ites are more spiritual, emotional, traditional and nomadic. Egypt is a Sunni state, which is in deep trouble through corrupt government and nepotism. The fundamentalists (Muslim-Brotherhood) strongly believe in the return of Muslim saviour and their following march to Jerusalem. Iran is a Shi'ite state and everybody is watching their growth towards a (nuclear) world power. What's driving them. Sunnites as well Sji'ites, like some fundamentalist Christians, believe in the (material) return of a liberator and destroyer of Evil. This will be the start of the "World Caliphate", complete Muslim domination. Christians believe in the return of Jesus Christ. The groupsw within Islam believe strongly in the return of the 12^th Iman, the Imam Mahdi. He will lead his forces to conquer the world and to fight the degenerate powers, like Israel, the USA and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian leaders believe that his coming is immanent and a whole nation is preparing for a holy war. The Mahdi will lay the base for a Muslim world governance (sha'ria) and the destruction of the degenerative West.

The big difference between the Western soldier and an Iranian one, is, that the latter one is fighting with a purpose. He or she is fighting a Holy War, they cannot loose. Sacrificing your life means martyrdom and immortality. This fire is daily fed. Mass demonstrations are held and a former Iranian prime-minister announced the coming of the Imam Mahdi, during a speech in New York (UN).

Western military-strategists and war-planners under- estimate that power and the potency of it.

But maybe Achmedinejad and the Iranian people are waiting in vain, even though seemingly all the prophetic signs, mentioned in Muslim tradition, seem fulfilled.

In the last century a group of Iranian pilgrims occupied the Kaa'ba in Mecca, the most holy place in Islam and did so for several days. They were heavenly armed. Getting them inside was easy. The machine guns were hidden on stretchers, used for bringing a recently deceased believer to the core of Islam. In a proclamation the Iranians claimed that they had the 12^th Imam Mahdi in their midst. This man fulfilled all the prophesies and prediction of the Hadith. They demanded, that the Saudi Royal family must step down and be replaced by the Iman.

Of course (?) the Royal Family refused and special forces armed with tanks, stormed the place. The Iranians had transformed the complex into a fort. They were able to hold of the Saudi military for several days. In the end the Iman Mahdi and his supporters were killed and so were the few survivors. They were executed on the spot. Did they kill their saviour?