{"id":67219,"date":"2019-12-29T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T22:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=67219"},"modified":"2019-12-29T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T22:37:10","slug":"mecca-the-1979-grand-mosque-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=67219","title":{"rendered":"Mecca, the 1979 Grand Mosque Siege"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — watch out for movements — of any belief — that arm themselves in preparation for an end times battle ]
\n.<\/p>\n

This is simply to alert you to a fine BBC recounting of the events at the Grand Mosque in Mecca<\/strong> on the first day of the current Islamic century — when two or three hundred heavily armed militants following a Mahdist claimant and his proclaimer —<\/p>\n

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BBC pull quote<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

really, think the Second Coming of Jesus Christ<\/strong> and His John the Baptist<\/strong>, and you have some sense of the seriousness of the affair — took over the central mosque in all of Islam — think the Church of the Holy Sepulcher<\/strong> in Jerusalem, or St Peter’s Basilica<\/strong> in the Vatican perhaps — and held the place under siege, with considerable bloodshed, until finally four French commandos were allowed in to use gas and flush out the remaining followers of the Mahdi<\/strong>, himself now dead.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

End times arousals of this sort are far from over: ISIS<\/strong> espoused an explicitly eschatological ideology<\/a>, while AL Qaida used an end times hadith to rally to their black banners <\/a>in Afghanistan, and a 2007 Shi’ite insurgency near Najaf<\/a> around a Mahdist claim, Shi’i-style, was serious enough for the government of Iraq to call in American air strikes.<\/p>\n

Important stuff, therefore.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Recommended Readings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • BBC<\/strong>, Mecca 1979: The mosque siege that changed the course of Saudi history<\/a>\n
  • Hegghammer & Lacroix<\/strong>, The Meccan Rebellion: The Story of Juhayman al-‘Utaybi Revisited<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Hegghammer & Lacrois:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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