Timothy Furnish

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.

Don’t Consign GOP to Land of Cotton

Sunday, November 16th, 2008 - by Timothy Furnish

By equating red states with the Confederacy, pundits reveal their own ignorance and hate.

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Pontius Palin and Messiah Obama

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 - by Timothy Furnish

"Jesus was a community organizer; Pilate was a governor" is ahistorical and just plain dumb.

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Converting the West to Islam Through… Sex?

Saturday, June 28th, 2008 - by Timothy Furnish

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"?

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Will Iraq Stoke Flames of Islamic Messianism?

Monday, April 7th, 2008 - by Timothy Furnish

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.

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