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April 1, 2005

Confused Americans for Truth - Koran Scholar Makes a Big Blunder

by Ferdinand T Cat

The Jerusalem Post is reporting that a Palestian scholar has predicted that the United States will be wiped out by 2007. You can find the article here.

I'm sure this guy has spent a lot more time studying the Koran than I have, but as prophecies go, this one is a total loser.

The first rule of predicting is that you never predict the future, you predict the past. You can predict the past before it happens, but the future will forever be a mystery.

Here's how it works. Let's say I predict that Los Angeles will be hit by an earthquake in May of 2006. That's predicting the future. When May 2006 rolls around and there's no earthquake, I'm in the soup. On the other hand, if I predict there will be an earthquake in Los Angeles that causes a disturbance in the water, I'm predicting the past before it happens. Each time an earthquake occurs in Los Angeles, I check for something disturbing involving water. If I find it, then I can point to my prediction.

In other words, my prediction is completely useless until AFTER it's come true. I'm not predicting the future, I'm predicting the past before it happens.

Nostradamus, for example, made over 942 predictions, of which only 8 involved specific dates. All 8 failed to materialize. The other 934, however, have been coming true repeatedly for centuries. If he'd had the sense to leave off the dates, he could be on his way to a perfect record.

Ziad Silwadi went way out on a limb in his analysis of the Koran by postulating that the U.S. will be destroyed by a flood. Not only does Allah have to cause twin earthquakes, He has to do it with shaped charges that direct the cleansing tide toward North America while leaving Asia and Europe untouched. To compound the error with a specific date is just too much. I can see a man making that kind of mistake, but a prophet?

Not likely.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat


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Well, if "Allah" (in the guise of some crazies of Middle Eastern decent) buy large enough nuclear weapons on the black market from former Soviet states, North Korea, Pakistan, India, China or Iran, and explode them off the coasts of the U.S. I could see them claiming it was Allah. At least until we show the radiation readings and turn those countries involved into glassed over parking lots.


Posted by: Outlaw3 at April 1, 2005 7:47 AM

Not that I believe this quack, but the pope is about to die, and there was a prophecy by St. Malachy that there will be only two more after this one. Astrology says we are in the dawn of a new age, and the Mayan calender runs out in 2012.

Maybe I'm being paranoid.


Posted by: Jay at April 1, 2005 1:13 PM

Nicely said, Ferdy.

I especially like the "shaped charges" bit. Classic!


Posted by: J at TAotB at April 1, 2005 1:53 PM

What good is a calendar (Mayan) that outlived the civilization that invented it?


Posted by: jay [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 1, 2005 3:05 PM

Considering that the koran is a crock of shit and means nothing in the first place except as a manifesto for a death cult, I'm 100% not worried about "allah" wiping out America, as "he's" just a big black rock sitting in a man-made shrine at mecca.

Islamofacists getting their hands on nukes and setting them off in the US does worry me. I wouldn't put it past them to "prophecy" their intentions to try and make it look like divine intervention if they should succeed.

Maybe this should be a warning to us what the iranian mullahs and their wahabbi magog have planned.


Posted by: Dianne at April 1, 2005 3:22 PM

Every religion has the potential to be perverted for violent ends.

Wahabbism has its roots in the belief that the Moors fell from power because they were too tolerant. The Bush Doctrine is based on the belief that Islam can regain its past glory if it embraces that old tolerance.

I have to say I'm hoping that President Bush is correct. I don't like what would have to happen if he's wrong.


Posted by: Ferdy [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 1, 2005 4:01 PM

Booga booga!

I'm going to add a count-down to my blogs. I want to be ready on that day to laugh myself silly.

Imagine if Frank J were to somehow brain-wash Bush. "I have gathered you all, top muslim clerics, to say goodbye. Allah will destroy America in 10 minutes, so I will make this brief. Your countries are already glass. Have fun."


Posted by: Tom at April 2, 2005 4:02 AM

Hmmm... should I cash in my life insurance and retirement now...?


Posted by: FTS at April 2, 2005 10:13 AM

In 1975, I was a high school junior trying to figure out what to do with my life, worrying about college, money, etc. In church one Sunday the minister quoted some source that believed after studying the Bible, that the world would end on May 1, 1976. This was about 2 weeks before my graduation date. I remember thinking, "Good! Now I don't have to worry about all that college stuff!"


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