what is the significance of August 22nd?

[gWbush is Mabus]

[displacedtexan]

1. It's my birthday.

That's the only significance I can think of.

</snark>

[NMDemDist2]

2. Happy Birthday dt!!

:party: :woohoo: :toast: :yourock: :bounce:

[Canuckistanian]

5. Much more significant!

Happy Birthday! :party:

[acmavm]

3. I think this is it

Iran's Day of Terror?
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 27, 2006

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has frustrated Western officials by refusing to reply to their offer of various incentives in exchange for Iran’s discarding its nuclear program until August 22. The Western governments had asked Ahmadinejad to reply by June 29; why would Tehran need two extra months?

Farid Ghadry, the president of the Reform Party of Syria, has offered a provocative explanation for this delay. He asserts that the Supreme National Security Council of Iran chose the August 22 date “for a very precise reason. August 21, 2006 (Rajab 27, 1427) is known in the Islamic calendar as the Night of the Sira’a and Miira’aj, the night Prophet Mohammed (saas) ascended to heaven from the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on a Bourak (Half animal, half man), while a great light lit-up the night sky, and visited Heaven and Hell also Beit al-Saada and Beit al-Shaqaa (House of Happiness and House of Misery) and then descended back to Mecca.…”



The Night Journey, or Miraj, is central to Islam’s claim to Jerusalem as an Islamic holy city. According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad was carried on a Buraq, a miraculous horse with a human head, from Mecca to Jerusalem, where he ascended into heaven and met the other prophets. The only thing the Qur’an has to say about it is this: “Glory to (Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless, in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things)” (17:1). There is no identification of the “farthest Mosque” with any mosque in Jerusalem in this, but the Hadith is very clear on the identification of its location with Jerusalem.

-MORE-

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23533

[Solly Mack]

12. I think that's where the "rapture date" came from as well

Muslim holy day and the beliefs surrounding it, coupled with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's August 22 comment, got morphed into "Rapture Day"

Speculation was that Ahmadinejad was planning something "big" on this day. The Wall Street Journal did an opinion piece suggesting as much. http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008768&mod=RSS_Opinion_Journal&ojrss=frontpage

[Avalux]

4. Rapture supposed to happen today.

Those who believe in the rapture think it will happen today in light of the story about Iran. I wonder what they're gonna do when today comes and goes and they're still here?

[MiaCulpa]

6. Rapture

I'm a bit rusty, but isn't the rapture supposed to follow a thousand years of peace? Did I miss a few years somewheres?

[Connie_Corleone]

8. It depends.

Some believe the rapture happens before the great tribulation that's supposed to last 7 years. Then they come back and reign with Jesus for 1000 years.

These are the Rapture Ready folks.

Some others believe the rapture happens at the end of the tribulation and then the 1000 years happens right after that.

[DRoseDARs]

9. The Rapture is when the "faithful" are taken into Heaven to spare them...

...the seven years of God's wrath on Earth when the antichrist/Satan comes to power. Then the Second Coming of Jesus occurs, Satan is defeated for eternity, and Jesus rules the Earth for a thousand years... and then God simply ends the universe, erasing it from existence.

[Toots]

16. Well it's only been six years so far with Bush* (anti-Christ)

We have a whole more year to go...:shrug:

[JHB]

7. Mess with their heads: "Hey, why weren't you with all those flying...

...naked people I saw yesterday? They just rose up out of their clothes and vanished. The Government's trying to keep it quiet though. Were't you saying that would happen to you? Why are you still here?"

[marmar]

15. "what they're gonna do when today comes and goes and they're still here?"

Maybe they'll all leave voluntarily. :evilgrin:

[Turbineguy]

17. Hmmmm...Should I mow my lawn

or give it a pass (to the growing chagrin of the neighborhood repugs).

[democrat in Tallahassee]

10. My birthday, too!

[Lochloosa]

19. Happy Birthday...now head to Bullwinkles and have one on me.

:party:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. it is tuesday?

mid summer?
hot?
Bush is running at the mouth?

[Caution]

13. My Mom's Birthday!

[MsLeopard]

14. Jumping on the birthday wagon

My birthday, as well. Happy day to us all! :party:

[Lochloosa]

20. Happy Birthday

:party:

[mcscajun]

18. August 22: Does Iran have something in store?

What is the significance of Aug. 22? This year, Aug. 22 corresponds, in the Islamic calendar, to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to "the farthest mosque," usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back (c.f., Koran XVII.1). This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and if necessary of the world. It is far from certain that Mr. Ahmadinejad plans any such cataclysmic events precisely for Aug. 22. But it would be wise to bear the possibility in mind.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008768

There's no Rapture "scheduled" for today, but according to this article and others, Iran has designs to nuke Israel on this date and precipitate WWIII.

I'm not holding my breath, and I guess I still have to go to work in two hours. :crazy: