It seems that there is virtually no way to avoid a military confrontation with Iran’s mad clerics, barring some kind of unforeseen miracle – like a student revolt or the regime’s collapse. Neither seems particularly likely at this point.
Indeed, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brags that Iran has signed up tens of thousands of volunteer suicide bombers sworn to defend Iran (and, perhaps coincidentally, to keep the Iranian populace on their toes).
Ahmadinejad is a fanatic who believes it is his destiny to start the global war that will bring about the emergence of the Islamic “Mahdi,” which is their equivalent of the Messiah in Judeo-Christianity. The Islamic Mahdi will lead a victorious Islamic army in a global conquest of the world for Islam in the last days, according to Islamic prophecies. Their concept of this prophecy is based on the war of Armageddon from the book of Revelation in the New Testament. The difference is they believe the goal is to subject the whole world to submission to Allah, and to establish Sharia Law and the Quran as the rule of all people.
Ahmadinejad reaffirmed that goal in his recent letter to President Bush. In it, Ahmadinejad invited George Bush to embrace Islam as a way of reconciling the United States to the Islamic world.
The French wire service AFP quoted Iran’s hard-line Siasat-e Rooz Daily as saying of the letter, “We expect the government to make the enemy understand that it should change its hostile positions, as the future belongs to Islam.”
“It has been the Prophet’s way to invite the infidel leaders to the right way,” it said. Actually the Quran indicates that this invitation is the prelude to military subjection if refused.
Most secular analysts interpreted the letter as merely a stalling tactic designed to send the U.N. Security Council back to the debating table to give Iran more time to process uranium and develop its nuclear program. In reality, this is a letter from a devout believer in the Quran that is following the Quranic pattern to the letter. He believes that if the “gracious invitation” to submit to Allah and the Muslim religion is refused, then he is fully justified by the Quran to use all military means possible to subject the “pre-warned, obstinate infidels to either convert, subject or be killed.”
The United States officially dismissed the letter as a ploy that offered “no new insights.” To view the letter in this way is to fail to understand the gravity it portends in the context of the religious views that created it. Viewed in the light of Ahmadinejad’s fervent religious convictions, the letter shows us what is, in his view, our only option. This is what the Ahmadinejad letter stated in no uncertain terms.
He wrote:
Mr. President, according to divine verses, we have all been called upon to worship one God [Allah] and follow the teachings of the divine [Muslim] prophets. We increasingly see that people around the world are flocking toward a main focal point – that is the Almighty God. Undoubtedly through faith in God and the teachings of the prophets, the people will conquer their problems. My question for you is: “Do you not want to join them?”
It is a matter of record that Ahmadinejad’s goal is to use nuclear weapons to advance the spread of Islam, destroy Israel, hasten the return of the Mahdi, and bring about the glorious Islamic “End Days” in which all the world will live in their concept of an Islamic paradise.
But first, the Quran requires that an infidel be invited to voluntarily submit to Islam before an attack is justified.
Ahmadinejad’s letter did precisely that – officially offering President Bush the chance to embrace Islam in front of the entire Islamic world.
Far from containing “nothing new,” Ahmadinejad’s letter is a religious ultimatum – submit to Islam, or face the consequences.
In the light of this letter, the West, and especially the United States, faces only two options – conventional war now … or nuclear war in a few months.
If we do not have the courage to face the facts and act now, we had better start learning the Quran.
