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Conference: Shi?i Eschatology and the Iranian Vision

By Alliance Alert

Ethics and Public Policy Center: "According to Dr. Timothy Furnish, while many Muslims in the Islamic Republic of Iran prepare for the return of the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam, many in the international community worry that Islamic extremists will use the acquisition of nuclear bombs or other weapons of mass destruction to "hot-wire the apocalypse." Dr. Furnish holds a Ph.D for Islamic history and is a leading expert on Muslim eschatology. He suggests that perhaps Mahdism is really being utilized as a tool to summon the extra-Shi`i Islamic world to join Tehran in its bid for Islamic world leadership. He will offer his insights on this timely topic followed by a panel discussion with EPPC Senior Fellow and former Senator Rick Santorum, Professor Cynthia Ayers of the U.S. Army War College, and Dr. Michael Ledeen, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 24, 2010 (boomark / email).