Hojjatieh: Iran's Armageddon cult

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Wikepedia
Hojjatieh is a semi-clandestine Iranian organization which is radically anti-Bahá'í and anti-Sunni. The group flourished during the 1979 revolution that ousted the Shah and installed an Islamic government in his place. However it was banned in 1983 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the revolution. They believe that chaos must be created to hasten the coming of the Mahdi, the 12th Shi'ite imam. Only then, they argue, can a genuine Islamic republic be established. The Hojjatieh is more of an anarchic-Islamic group than your typical Islamic fundamentalist group.

The current president of Iran Mahmud Ahmadinejad is rumored to be an advocate of this group, though this has not been confirmed anywhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hojjatieh

Asia Times - Shi'ite supremacists emerge from Iran's shadows

TEHRAN - When mild-mannered former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami lashed out in a post-election sermon at the "powerful organization" behind the "shallow-thinking traditionalists with their Stone-Age backwardness" currently running the country, it became clear that Iran's political establishment is worried by the ideology propelling the government of new hardline President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

Khatami's attack coincides with mounting evidence that a radically anti-Bahai and anti-Sunni semi-clandestine society, called the Hojjatieh, is reemerging in the corridors of power in Tehran. The group flourished during the 1979 revolution that ousted the Shah and installed an Islamic government in his place, and was banned in 1983 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the revolution.

Khomeini objected to the Hojjatieh's rejection of his doctrine of velayat-e faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist) and its conviction that chaos must be created to hasten the coming of the Mahdi, the 12th Shi'ite imam. Only then, they argue, can a genuine Islamic republic be established.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GI09Ak01.html

The Independent - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: The nuclear prophet
More worrying for some is that Ahmadinejad is closely identified with the cult of the "hidden imam", the 12th and last of the line of imams revered by Shia Muslims. In a clear parallel with Jewish and Christian visions of Armageddon, Shias believe the imam zaman will return at a time of great turmoil to defeat the forces of evil; recently the president urged Iranians to work hard for this moment. As one commentator pointed out, this was like Tony Blair telling Britons to prepare for the Second Coming.

The most extreme zealots, a group called the Hojjatieh, say total chaos should be created to hasten the coming of the Mahdi, and there have been claims that Ahmadinejad, if not a member, sympathises with them. This explains his reckless attitude, say his critics. If the final triumph of Islam can be brought closer by provoking a nuclear war with Israel or America, why hold back?

It might be possible to dismiss this as scaremongering if it were not for a DVD circulating in Iran which shows the president in conversation with a conservative ayatollah. Ahmadinejad is speaking about his defiant address to the UN General Assembly last autumn, in which he refused to back down on Iran's nuclear programme.

"One of our group told me that when I started to say 'Bismillah Muhammad', he saw a green light come from around me, and I was placed inside this aura," he says. "I felt it myself. I felt the atmosphere change, and for those 27 or 28 minutes, all the leaders of the world did not blink. When I say they didn't move an eyelid, I'm not exaggerating. They were looking as if a hand was holding them there."
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article338625.ece

Google Hojjatieh
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=Hojjatieh&btnmeta%3Dsearch%3Dsearch=Search+the+Web

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1. That's scary stuff

I've read a little of Henry Corbin's writings on Iranian mysticism -- not enough to claim to know what's really going on here, but enough to know that it's heavy-duty stuff. Green light is associated not only with mystical states but also with the world-axis and the succession of cosmic eras.

That sort of thing is fascinating on its own -- but it mixes very badly with politics.

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3. Between Bush getting orders from God and Ahmadinejad placed inside an aura

We're in deep deep trouble.

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4. maybe he was in the room when the pig-glowing- discovery was made

..and caught a few rays

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2. Being a leader of a western nation requires

incredible intellect, power of influence, and true skill to deal with
other countries who are a potential threat to the planet..I don't claim
to know anything about Iran and their politics, but it's not too much to ask
that the leaders of the "supposed" civilized nations be of exceptional character
and integrity. We're all screwed.