He has returned!!

[Gob]

A Saudi man mounted a prayers platform at the Grand Mosque in Islam’s holiest shrine in the Gulf kingdom and told thousands of worshippers that he was a prophet and their saviour before he was seized by police.

The 36-year-old man, identified as Sami, waited until the Muslims finished their evening prayers at the Grand Mosque in the western town of Makkah, mounted the podium and delivered his brief, fiery speech. “I am Al-Mehdi Al-Montathar…I am a prophet sent (by God) to save and guide you,” he told the packed hall before was overpowered by police.

'Okaz' newspaper said the incident took place on Friday night and that Sami insisted during police interrogation that he was a prophet. It said police would subject him to medical examination to check if he is suffering from mental illness.It was the latest in a series of incidents involving persons claiming to be Al-Mehdi Al-Montathar (the Chosen Imam Al-Mehdi) at Islamic holy sites in Makkah over the past few months.

All of them had been arrested and medically examined. Muslims believe Imam Al-Mehdi, dubbed “the ultimate saviour of mankind’ will eventually reappear as a great reformer who will destroy the beliefs of injustice and ignorance and fill this earth with fairness after it has been filled with injustice and oppression.

http://www.emirates247.com/news/region/ ... 2-1.405418

[The Hen]

Excuse me for my complete sidetrack here.


Does anyone else think that "Okaz Newspaper" sounds like something a LOL cat would read?

[Joe Guy]

He's a muslim, but if someone acting like him turned out to be the actual second coming of Christ, that is how he would be treated nowadays.

And he probably wouldn't be allowed on an airplane in the U.S.

And he would probably be singing, 'Christ! you know it ain't easy...'

[The Hen]

One does have to wonder how Christ will be taken seriously when he comes around the second time?

Maybe he has already been sectioned?

[dales]

He's a muslim, but if someone acting like him turned out to be the actual second coming of Christ, that is how he would be treated nowadays.

And he probably wouldn't be allowed on an airplane in the U.S.

And he would probably be singing, 'Christ! you know it ain't easy...'

Would he be eating chocolate cake in the bath?

[loCAtek]

One does have to wonder how Christ will be taken seriously when he comes around the second time?

Maybe he has already been sectioned?

Exactly. Some people already have their prejudices in place; just like the First Coming.

[thestoat]

Maybe people aren't so gullible these days

[Gob]

Some are mate, some are....

[The Hen]

Exactisely. Look at how many believed in the Rapture.

You would have thought it was the end of the world!

[Andrew D]

Tens of millions -- hundreds of millions? -- of Christians still believe in the rapture. They just didn't buy that guy's timing prediction. Considering that Jesus (reportedly) said that no one is going to know the timing until it happens (see Matthew 24:36), that seems to me a sensible position.