Toward the Rise of an Islamic Caliphate?

Good articles. Pretty much says what we on this blog have been warning will happen. The emergence of a very anti-Western, anti-Israel Islamic Caliphate in the Muslim nations of the middle-east and North Africa, all convinced that their Messiah, the Mahdi will lead the world to an Islamic utopia.

Daniel 11:40 indicates a future King of the South will spearhead a military drive towards Israel and the Holy land during the latter days, and Isaiah 19 indicates that Egypt, (and perhaps the other nations of this Caliphate), will come under the rule of a fierce King.

I will hand the Egyptians over to the power of a cruel master, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty. Isaiah 19:4 NIV

From the news article:

As the Arab world convulses, much of the American discussion is focused on whom we should help, whom we should help topple, how much it will cost, how will it affect our already-taxed military personnel, and whether our leaders in Washington have any kind of plan for dealing with the changing regimes and allegiances. All valid issues. But a wider view of the changes shows that the ouster of rulers in Tunisia and Egypt, the possible fall of Gadhafi in Libya and Saleh in Yemen, and the upheaval in Bahrain and even Syria, could create a climate for a move to restore an Islamic Caliphate -- a political union of Muslims under one ruler, a Caliph.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said an Islamic messiah known as the Mahdi is behind a divine awakening sweeping across the Middle East. Millions of Muslims believe the Mahdi will one day return to save humanity. But before he can appear, Israel and America must be destroyed. "With the grace of god, and thanks to the resistance of nations, the new Middle East will be realized soon without the American and the Zionist regimes," Ahmadinejad recently said.