The Twelfth Iman

I spoke about this earlier today in class, and I thought it would be interesting to put up a link about the "The Twelfth Iman"...aka Mahdi. A cental figure in the beliefs of some followers of Shi'a Islam.

Most troubling among the believers is Iranian leader
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has stated his desire to remove Isreal from the map.

"He was addressing a conference entitled The World without Zionism and his comments were reported by the Iranian state news agency Irna.

"As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map," he said, referring to Iran's late revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. "

Anyone from my generation will likely be uneasy with anyone who embraces a position of the Ayatollah Khomeini after his behavior in the 1980's.

This is doubly troubling in light of today's revelation that Iran now is claiming success in their nuclear enrichment program.