I'll be on CNN's Glenn Beck Show tonight to discuss the Iranian leader's speech at Columbia
By Joel C. Rosenberg

(TORONTO, Canada, September 24, 2007) -- I'm in Toronto tonight taping a series of interviews on Epicenter for a Canadian TV network, but I will be on CNN's "Glenn Beck" show tonight (7pm, 9pm and midnight eastern) to discuss the visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to New York, and specificially his speech today at Columbia University....two quick points: first, it's an how Ahmadinejad began the speech -- rather than end with a call that Allah would hasten the coming of the Islamic Messiah known as the "Mahdi" or the "Twelfth Imam" or the "just and promised One" as he did in 2006 and 2006 in his speeches at the U.N., the Iranian leader actually began the speech this way....why?....it's not yet clear, but it's important to note that in 2005, Ahmadinejad was telling colleagues that the end of the world was just two or three years away, and the way to hasten the coming of the Mahdi was to annihilate Israel and the U.S....that was two years ago....he's no longer burying the lead....yet much of the American media is....they don't seem to realize how central Ahmadinejad's Shiite Islamic eschatology (end times theology) is to Iran's current foreign policy....and that's why they are missing how dangerous this regime really is....when the Mahdi arrives on earth, he is supposed to appear in Mecca and Medina, but where does he go then?.....not to Iran....not to Jerusalem....not to Europe or Russia....he supposedly heads for Iraq....that's what Shiite leaders have taught for centuries....which is why Iran is sending insurgents, weapons and money into Iraq, to create the conditions of chaos and carnage into which the Mahdi can come, finish off the U.S. and Israel, and set up a global Islamic caliphate headquartered in Iraq....who's the leading Shiite insurgent in Iraq?....Moqtada al-Sadr....what's the name of his militia?.....the Mahdi Army.....and now you know the rest of the story. (I may be on Glenn's radio show tomorrow. Please tune in if you can.)