Rush Limbaugh: '12th imam' like 'Antichrist'
Talk radio host echoes analysis of end times bestsellerRush Limbaugh has shocked listeners by warning the Iranian government’s hoped-for “12th Imam” is “equivalent to the Antichrist,” the prophesied end times figure believed by many to be the personification of evil.
The bold declaration from the talk radio titan is drawing new attention to Joel Richardson, whose bestselling “The Islamic Antichrist: The Shocking Truth About the Real Nature of the Beast” developed the theory that the Islamic “Mahdi” is none other than the Antichrist of Revelation.
Limbaugh made the comments in a discussion about the prospect of Iran using a nuclear weapon against other Muslims. A caller protested an Iranian nuclear attack would likely kill “just as many Arabs as Israelis.”
However, as Limbaugh noted, the Iranian government doesn’t have any solidarity with Saudi Arabia, the Palestinians or Sunni Muslims except as a tool to use against Israel.
In Limbaugh’s words: “This is Shiite versus Sunni. It’s an argument within Islam.”
He believes the Iranian government is being driven by its Shiite Islamic beliefs about the end times and argues the mullahs are not rational actors who can negotiate in good faith.
“People have also said, ‘Don’t they realize if they nuke Israel, that they’ll be nuking themselves because there will be a retaliation?’ Well, if you go read about the 12th Imam, courtesy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, you find out that all of this is about the apocalypse. And they believe it.
“This is religious truth to them. The 12th Imam can only surface after Israel is done away with, and the 12th Imam is the equivalent to Antichrist and so forth.”
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He continued: “Look, don’t anybody argue with me here because I’m not being specifically literal, but there are commonalities here. The 12th Imam signals the end of everything in a good sense, in a good apocalyptic sense, not a treacherous or a bad one. But if they believe that then the whole notion of retaliation doesn’t matter and the whole idea of killing other Arabs doesn’t matter.”
Richardson, who first popularized and explained the concept of the Antichrist as an Islamic figure in his bestselling book “The Islamic Antichrist” and followed with “The Mideast Beast,” welcomed Limbaugh’s comments as both recognition of his own work and a valuable contribution to interpreting contemporary Middle Eastern politics.
“I have listened to Rush Limbaugh for almost 25 years. So it is very nice to know that he is also being impacted by my own work. As the author of “The Islamic Antichrist,” the first book to have popularized Islamic eschatology, I’ve heard many prominent voices discussing the content of my book, and it’s always gratifying.”
Richardson recalled other notable figures who have drawn on “The Islamic Antichrist,” including Mark Steyn, Glenn Beck, Hal Lindsey and Joel C. Rosenberg.
Here’s the conversation with Beck about “The Mideast Beast”:
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