Who Said That?

"The king of Egypt during that time will be the man who devastated the Jews in the Sinai and exiled their remnants from it and let in the forces of the [foreign] agent of the UN, which removed weaponry from most of the Sinai and stayed to guard the illusions of peace or the deluded peace . . . . So the king of Egypt will proclaim the union of Egypt with the caliphate state, and the Egyptian armies in expectation of the Mahdi, will combine together to aid the religion of God."

Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no google searches or cheating.  Answer to follow with the next "Who Said That?" post.

Update on Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 11:29AM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is a quote from Muhammad `Isa Da'ud, who calls himself the Egyptian "Sinbad."  A very popular writer who attempts to tie UFO's, the Bermuda Triangle, and current events together from an Islamic perspective.  Sounds like some prophecy pundits we may know!  His books sell in the millions are are widely read throughout the Arabic-speaking world.  Can't help but wonder how much Islamic eschatological expectation is driving events in Egypt.

The exact quote comes from David Cook's Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literture (Syracuse University Press, 2005), 130.  He is citing from Da'ud's 1997 best-selling book Al-Mahdi al-muntazar `ala al-abwah (Cairo)

Comments

[Rick]

Has to be the president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

[Rick]

"in expectation of the Mahdi", Ahmadinejad would be my first guess as well.

[Pr Mark Henderson]

Yeah, I gotta go for MA too. Mention the Mahdi and you think Mahmoud.

[Barbara Vracin]

Ayatollah Khameni

["lee n. field"]

I'll take a stab in a different direction. WeirdNetDaily has been pushing a book arguing for an Islamic Antichrist (see http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=105906). I'd guess that author, Joel Richardson.

[Rana]

the use of the term "caliphate" sounds like the Glenn Beck hysteria all of us who study the Middle East have been laughing about, but the talk about Egyptian glory and union sounds like someone out of Egypt, someone older perhaps still believing in Egypt's ability to save the Mid East which was a sentiment under Gamal Abd el Nasser.

whoever it is this is not a mainstream belief, at least not among the educated class that i worked, lived and went to school with in Cairo. most people i knew had no delusions about Egypt's weaknesses, which is evidenced in the Egyptian brain drain/ desire to immigrate and now in the Egyptian Revolution.

[Alan]

I'm also going in a different direction. Although I have no clue who exactly said this I'm going to guess John Hagee or some other dispensational prophecy pundit who likes to impose current events onto Scripture.