Hezbollah cells await Iran’s orders

02 August 2006

Hezbollah sleeper cells in Western Europe are awaiting instructions from Tehran, says Melanie Phillips. Sunni and Shia are uniting in their hatred of the West, and Britain may soon be another front in a war that extends far beyond Lebanon

Alas, Britain does not notice. All it sees and hears is Hezbollah’s sophisticated propaganda, uncritically transmitted by a credulous and prejudiced media. So it is in grave danger of missing the big picture altogether.

According to Shia tradition, legitimate Islamic rule can only be established following the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, a kind of Shia messiah. Khomeini taught that the Twelfth Imam would appear only when the believers had vanquished evil.

Ahmadinejad is driven by the desire to bring about his arrival on earth through promoting Armageddon. The night before 22 August is when the Prophet Mohammed is said to have ascended to heaven from Temple Mount, when a ‘great light lit up the night sky’ over Jerusalem. The date on which Ahmadinejad has said he will respond to the EU’s ultimatum over his nuclear programme is 22 August. Will his response be to light up the sky over Jerusalem?

Doubtless any attempt to prevent this would be damned in Britain as ‘disproportionate’. But if Israel were to lose to Iran, it would herald a catastrophe for the entire free world.

This is no longer England, however. It is Lemmingland.

Melanie Phillips is a Daily Mail columnist and author of Londonistan (Gibson Square).