joelstrumpet

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090116/REVIEW/825793663/-1/NEWS

Surge in belief - read this review. Excerpt:

It is tempting to dismiss the outlandish ideas of apocalypticists as sheer lunacy. After all, one of the most prominent apocalyptic writers, the Egyptian Muhammad Isa Dawud, argues that the Antichrist resides in the Bermuda triangle and controls the world with flying saucers. But the sheer number of readers – millions all over the Muslim world, mostly from the lower classes – forces us to take them seriously. And some apocalypticists do commit acts of violence: in 1979, a group of rebels forcibly seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, declaring that one of their associates was the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam. But the most important reason to take apocalypticism seriously is that people’s beliefs about the end of the world reflect and inform their political and social views in the present.

Bonjour quiberon bay,

I tried to follow the link you provide but it does not work...

Can you do a cut and paste of the article in question so that we know what this "nouveau livre en français" is all about..

Merci beaucoup!

Yah bless,

FX