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).
More articles from: Melanie Phillips | this section
Post this entry to: del.icio.us | Digg | Newsvine | NowPublic | Reddit
Advertisement
How the Tories can still win in Europe
Fraser NelsonSleepwalking into disaster in Afghanistan
John C. HulsmanListen up, Dave: to care is not to do
David Frum
GASCONY, SW France, near Condom-en-Armagnac 13th Century stone house, 21st Century luxury for 12 in 5 en-suites. 50 acres +
IF YOU ARE PLANNING A CHAMPAGNE RECEPTION and looking for some light entertainment, you can now hire London's busiest steel
BOSC LEBAT, SW France. Only 45 minutes from Toulouse Airport with daily flights from most provincial airports avoiding the horrors
Spectator Business | Apollo Magazine
Corporate | Advertising | Privacy | Terms
Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP
All Articles and Content Copyright ©2009 by The Spectator | All Rights Reserved
Be the first to comment on this article!
Back to top