Timothy R. Furnish, M.A.R. (Church history), Ph.D. (Islamic history), is a recovering college professor and runs the website www.mahdiwatch.org, which tracks Islamic messianism and eschatology.
By equating red states with the Confederacy, pundits reveal their own ignorance and hate.
"Jesus was a community organizer; Pilate was a governor" is ahistorical and just plain dumb.
Temporary marriage for the Islamization of the West is an idea so crazy it might just work. Who could resist "mut`ah for nothing and chicks for free"?
The Mahdi Army may just be a taste of what's to come, as conditions are ripe for Iraq to spawn a wave of messiah movements across the Islamic world.