The "Suicide" Religion of Iran

Is there another Winston Churchill in our midst? Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed on Headline News Nov. 17, 2006. Mr. Netanyahu said:

“Iran is Nazi Germany, and this is 1938 – which was one year before World War II. We are dangerously close to World War III.
“Iran is the king of Middle East terrorists. The dangerous Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will provide terrorists with nuclear weapons – it’s only a matter of when. Here are Ahmadinejad’s religious beliefs: Israel is just the first weigh station en route to you, America. So there is this fundamental fanaticism that is there. It’s a messianic cult. It’s a religious messianic cult that believes in the Apocalypse, and they believe they have to expedite the Apocalypse to bring the collapse of the West. If the lunatics escape from the asylum, that’s one thing. But if they can get their hands on a nuclear weapon, that’s another. And this is that kind of a cult. It’s the cult of the Mahdi, a holy man that disappeared a thousand years ago. And the president of Iran believes that he’s supposed to, that he was put here on Earth to bring this holy man back in a great religious war between the true Muslim believers and the infidels. And millions will die in this Apocalypse, and the Muslim believers will go to heaven. That’s dangerous, if they have nuclear weapons to realize this fantasy. And that is where the world is coming to.
“Now, people said that of Hitler in the 1930s. They said this man has a mad ideology, very fanatic, very dangerous, and if he gets his hands on a military power, he would use it. Hitler did use it; but Hitler tried to develop atomic weapons only after embarking on the world conflict.
“Ahmadinejad is first trying to develop nuclear weapons and then going about his mad fantasy of global conflict. So he has to be stopped. I think when you have something as fanatic and as dangerous as this, the question now is not whether he should be stopped, but how’s the best way to stop him.
“Someone must stop Iran or this number-one sponsor of terrorism is going to put nuclear weapons into the hands of terrorists. And America is their primary target.
“No current nuclear power in the world is suicidal, but the Iranian leaders are. That is why you can’t stop their terrorism unless you stop their “messianic cult of death” – which would probably mean destroying Iran. I think the most important thing to understand is that, you know the best sign of how dangerous things are? That the president of Iran is not even trying to fake it. You know, normally, if he wasn’t as fanatic as he is, he’d say, ‘Well, you know, yes, I think we could recognize Israel if it made the right concessions to the Palestinians.’ He’d play along; he’d play the game. He’d say, ‘We’re not really developing nuclear weapons. We just want nuclear energy for peace.’ You know, he’d say all that.
“But that’s not what he’s saying. Listen to him carefully. He’s saying, ‘We’re going to wipe Israel off the map. The Holocaust didn’t happen. America’s the great Satan. Iran will have the power to reshape history.’ Now a normal person would not say that. An insane person says that. “In the 1930s an insane person wrote in a book called Mein Kampf, ‘My Struggle’, and that was Adolf Hitler. He said exactly what he would do. He was stark raving mad, but he communicated. If you asked for a sign, that was a sign – 300 pages of signs, OK? Ahmadinejad every day is writing a page. He’s saying what he’s going to do. That’s the best sign. That tells you that there’s a fanaticism at work here which is not even calculating. He’s just going to do it. And let’s not enable him to do it. Let’s stop him. A Holocaust survivor was asked what lesson she learned from that experience. Her answer was, when a powerful leader says he is going to annihilate you, believe him!
“Ahmadinejad is in the process of doing exactly what he says he will do, but few people believe him – perhaps some are even laughing. That laughter could soon be silenced, just as the scoffing at Hitler stopped before and during World War II. Winston Churchill was a strong leader who stood up and led the West in conquering Hitler. But the British were almost beaten before they voted Churchill into office. That is because almost all the journalists, educators, politicians and religious leaders rejected Churchill’s warning in the 1930s.
“Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a strong dictator, much like Hitler. He is moving events along at a dizzy pace in the Middle East. Oil profits have made his country incredibly wealthy. He is going to cause a global crisis in only a few years – perhaps even months. He has virtually taken over Lebanon as the world does nothing. Iran’s efforts have helped Assad of Syria turn his nation more toward terrorism.
“Before World War II, Churchill tried to rouse Britain from ‘its sloth and trance.’ But it took what he termed ‘a series of horrible shocks’ to awaken the British people.”

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