The Return of the Hidden Imam

The End Time cult behind the genocide

The cleverest trick used in propaganda against Germany during the war was to accuse Germany of what our enemies themselves were doing.

Goebbels at Nuremberg — 1934

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Comrade Antonio Guterres, the openly Marxist secretary-general of the United Nations, said on October 24th that the genocidal massacre of the Jewish people on October 7th didn’t happen in a vacuum. He repeated the Marxist & Islamist construct that the very existence of Israel constitutes an occupation, therefore justifying Hamas’ genocidal pogrom.

This is a common strategy used by Marxists and Islamists. After multiple failed genocidal wars against the Jewish people in the 20th century, the Islamists have resorted to adopting the Marxist victim/oppressor paradigm. They are projecting their own behavior on the Jews by calling them oppressors, occupiers, and colonizers, rallying the useful idiots of the West behind them.

But Guterres is right; October 7th did not happen in a vacuum. It followed a millennia of genocidal hatred against any group who won’t submit to the Islamist ideology.

Jews are of course not the only target of this genocidal hatred, just ask our Armenian, Yazidi, Timorese, Sudanese or Nigerian friends, amongst many others. Those not killed are taken as slaves or submitted to an apartheid regime, called Dhimmi.

But Islamists have a particularly virulent hatred for the Jewish people. This is in part because Jews were adamant rejectors of Mohammad’s ideology, from the very beginning, “insulting” his thin-skinned ego in the process. From Mosques to Telegram accounts to TV channels, they are continuously reminded of that via a relentless 1400 year old indoctrination campaign.

The founder of the “religion of peace” himself has committed genocide against the Jews of Medina in 627. Since then, an ever growing list of justifications have come about to enable the genocide of the Jewish people.

Thanks to the useful Marxist idiots of the West, the genocidal Islamist colonizers are able to hide behind the labels of “resistance” and “freedom fighters”.

But why is the Islamist entity, that occupies vast swathes of land from Indonesia to Europe, thanks to centuries of relentless colonization, indoctrination and extermination, so obsessed with committing genocide against a certain people inhabiting a tiny sliver of land in Palestine?

Why are they so hellbent on engineering a Judenfrei in Palestine, and everywhere on earth?

Or, in their own genocidal chant: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”… of Jews.

Despite the popular Marxist mythology, it turns out that it has very little to do with some piece of land, and everything to do with ideology.

The following is an excerpt from an interview with Kasra Aarabi, an expert on the IRGC, and Iranian exile. He goes in detail about the theory behind the Hidden Imam, one of many concepts used to legitimize mass murder in the Islamic political ideology.

Kasra Aarabi is the Director of IRGC Research at United Against Nuclear Iran and non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. 

The recent noise around the politically motivated circus of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which would be more aptly named the International Court of Politics, makes this little-noticed interview recorded in November of last year very relevant. The ICJ’s “provisional decision” followed a malicious accusation of genocide against the very victims of genocide.

The International Court of Justice is an outgrowth of the cancerous United Nations, an organization that is actively and directly involved in the ongoing genocide against the Jewish people.

On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, this interview is extremely relevant and timely. It goes into detail about the dangerous cult around the Hidden Imam, an unhinged eschatological conspiracy theory that is used as another license to kill.

"They've done so much research about the Hidden Imam in the human science universities of the United States that I am not exaggerating by saying that it is a thousand times more than all the work done in the seminaries of Qom, Najaf, and Mashhad," [Ahmadinejad] reportedly said, referring to three Shi'ite holy cities.

Ahmadinejad, who is known for his controversial statements and his devotion to the Hidden Imam, added that U.S. universities have debriefed numerous individuals who have been in touch with the disappeared spiritual leader.

"To quote a friend, they've completed a case against the Hidden Imam, and closed it also for his arrest," he was quoted as saying. "The only [evidence] they lack is his picture."

Ahmadinejad suggested that the West -- and particularly the United States -- sees the return of the Hidden Imam as a threat to its "empire," adding that the U.S. administration is "evil."

"It is really a government established by Satan to prevent reaching God and the Hidden Imam," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. " … This evil government knows that its end will come if the Hidden Imam reappears."

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Former President of Iran

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Click on this video to watch the interview excerpt with Kasra Aarabi.

The full transcript from this 10 minute video is also available below.

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Transcript

Reporter

Because from the outside looking in it's a bit confusing that Shias and Sunnis would unite, albeit for the goal of annihilation of Israel. But tell us a little bit more about the background of that ideology. 

Kasra Aarabi

Sure, so the ideology of the Revolutionary Guard, the IRGC, is deeply anti-Semitic, extremely anti-Semitic. And the deep anti-Semitism is part of the glue that binds these Islamist extremist organizations together. It's why Hamas, despite being a Sunni Islamist extremist group, is part of the IRGC's so-called acts of resistance. And by the way, because of the October 7 terrorist attacks, it's going to play a much more prominent role for Tehran in this axis of resistance, all of which, by the way, is geared towards encircling Israel and moving towards confrontation. These militants, across the axis of resistance, and I've studied and obtained the internal training manuals the IRGC uses to radicalize its recruits as well as proxies, these state that Israel must be eradicated. 

And the key thing that they state, by the way, is they are teaching their recruits to wage armed jihad against Christians, Zoroastrians, and Jews on the basis that they "have unacceptable faith" and must either convert to Islam or be executed. Now, there's another dimension of this indoctrination program. By the way, the IRGC's indoctrination program, training, ideological radicalization, makes up more than 50% of training in the IRGC.

I mean, that's unparalleled. We don't see that. Because of the nature of the IRGC, the IRGC operates no differently to other prescribed Islamist extremist entities, from the likes of ISIS, al-Qaeda to Hezbollah, which it created. But since 2009, the IRGC's focused on a particular doctrine that it's been radicalizing its members and their families. And this is the militaristic doctrine of Mahdiism. 

 Now, amongst Islamist ideologies, the militaristic doctrine of Mahdiism is the most extremist doctrine. It's a Shia doctrine, primarily, but because of how extreme it is, we actually see ISIS al-Qaeda using it as part of radicalization. So, this doctrine is all centered around the return of the so-called "hidden imam," who Shia Muslims believe was withdrawn into a miraculous state of disappearance by God in 874 AD. One day, he will return, bringing justice to the world. He will reappear.

To do this, by the way, according to Shia historic Shia narrations, he will return with an army of 313 commanders that will wage a war against the infidels, the non-Muslims. And prior to Mahdi's arrival, prior to the hidden imam's arrival, there will be an apocalyptic war where Jews worldwide will be eradicated and killed.

Now, the IRGC, since 2009, has been indoctrinating its recruits on the basis that the IRGC is the militaristic vehicle to speed up Mahdi's return.

Because they have been communicating and radicalizing their recruits and stating that there are barriers to the hidden imam's return.

The biggest barrier, they claim, is the existence of the state of Israel. And they draw again on these Shia historic narrations that prior to his arrival, all Jews across the world will be eradicated.

 We've seen that the IRGC double down on this Mahdi's doctrine. so much so that right now, the October 7th terrorist attacks, across the board, by the way, not just in relation to the IRGC, across the axis of resistance, is being communicated as the first step towards Mahdi's arrival. So the first step towards the eradication of the state of Israel, going back to that long war of attrition. 

So really, this is an ideology that is extremely anti-Semitic. These fighters that they have recruited and radicalized across the board, so obviously Hamas is not the same as Hezbollah. Hezbollah was created by the IRGC from scratch. It is the gold standard proxy for the Revolutionary Guard, one where the IRGC directs complete command and control. Hamas is slightly different. However, it is reliant on the IRGC to orchestrate such an attack, such a terrorist attack on that scale, the IRGC will have been involved heavily. And the intelligence points to that. 

Reporter

And that involvement, does that mean in terms of the actual makeup of the horrific crimes? Because there was a level of brutality seen here that was very ISIS reminiscent. It seems that the message, if it is a direction, has been "make this as sickening as possible to scare, to intimidate". What was the reasoning behind that level of brutality and the taking of hostages as part of it? 

Kasra Aarabi

A lot of people have been surprised by this. But look, these are violent Islamist extremists that are radicalized to the core. So when you see these scenes, they are extremely horrific, of course. But the individuals conducting them are violent Islamist extremists. We shouldn't be surprised by the level of brutality. We've seen this elsewhere. We saw this in Syria. We've seen this inside of Iran, the regime in Iran brutally murdering the Iranian people using the most extreme forms of torture, sexual assault, really, really horrific stuff. And look, on the hostages as well, we're talking about an entity, the IRGC, that helped Hamas reconstruct buildings, civilian buildings, schools, hospitals, mosques, community centers, with the goal of storing missiles, so using civilians to protect missiles. 

And this was part of the IRGC Quds Force's strategy. They deployed this in 2006 in southern Lebanon. They created the Reconstruction Committee for Lebanon, headed by IRGC Quds Force commander Hassan Shateri. Shateri went in, rebuilt the southern Lebanon, and he was very open about this. It's in his memoirs in Farsi. They went in, they built, they went into a village. They would see that the children were playing football. He states this openly. He would command, build a football academy there, and we'll use the football academy to recruit and radicalize soldiers for Hezbollah. We'll recruit and radicalize soldiers for the Islamic Revolution. As well as this, Shateri, as I've said, reconstructed buildings in southern Lebanon with the sole purpose of housing missiles for Hezbollah. 

In 2008, they sought to replicate this in Gaza. They created the Reconstruction Committee for Gaza. And obviously, geographically, it's very different. The IRGC couldn't deploy its bulldozers and its cranes and its engineers into Gaza. However, at the strategic planning level, it provided the basis, the plan for Hamas to reconstruct buildings  with the sole purpose of housing missiles in civilian buildings, making it much harder for Israel to target Hamas positions and also making it much harder for the Israelis to target Hamas positions with minimal loss to civilian life. 

 This is all part of the IRGC strategy because it plays into the Revolutionary Guard psychological warfare doctrine, where not only is it harder for Israel to strike Hamas positions, but the Revolutionary Guard is able to win the psychological war, the information war. And we've seen this in the current ongoing conflict, where Israel, and it's a big part of this, is centered around disinformation. You remember the so-called strike on the hospital, which ended up being an Islamic Jihad failed missile. 

 Now, even though this was discounted, even though it was proven by multiple governments, including the Canadian government, stating that this was not an Israeli strike, the damage was done. 

Because mainstream media outlets covered this, took Hamas at face value, what they said. And as far as the Revolutionary Guard was concerned, it had won the information war, it had won the psychological war. 

So that's part of the reason why they house missiles in civilian buildings, obviously using civilians as human shields for their missiles, both to protect Hamas assets, making it harder for Israel to strike these assets and also to play into the psychological war and win that psychological war. 

And unfortunately, look, if you are the IRGC right now and you're seeing hundreds of thousands of people in the West take to the streets and portray Israel as the aggressor, even though Israel was clearly the victim of the October 7th terrorist attacks, the IRGC would be very happy to see these scenes.

 And, you know, it goes back to understanding the nature of these violent Islamist extremist organizations, because that's what they are. 

Of course, it's a completely perverse strategy, but these are terrorist organizations.

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(full interview can be found here)

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