Word: prophetic
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...country that was at war with Iraq for eight years in the 1980s. They believe that Iran controls Iraq's new extremist Shi'ite parties, and there are fears that Iranian intelligence officers have infiltrated southern Iraq. "Iran has been trying to destroy our country since before the Prophet, and it is still trying to do so today," says Karim Gitan, a businessman in Basra...
Iraqis weren’t alone in the bloodletting, which takes place annually in Lebanon, Iran, and other parts of the Shiite world as part of Ashura, the holiday which commemorates the martyrdom of the Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed who Shiites believe should have been recognized as the spiritual leader of Islam at the end of the seventh century...
...reverential hush filled the heavily guarded Islamic community center in downtown Tehran when Iran's Supreme Leader arrived to cast his vote last week in the country's parliamentary elections. "Allah bless the Prophet and his descendants," cried some fellow mullahs and government officials, in a traditional invocation. With his flowing robe, clerical turban and solemn visage, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei seemed to radiate a sacred otherworldliness, at least in the eyes of his followers, even as he undertook the mundane task of placing a blue card listing his candidate preferences into the slot of a cloth-covered ballot...
...last word in escape fantasies. Tahiti was the place where he hoped to find a native culture in tune with his most uncivilized impulses and where he could discharge energies, artistic, spiritual and phallic, that bow-tied Europe wanted no part of. Even D.H. Lawrence, that subsequent prophet of the primal against the merely civilized, made a kind of homage to Gauguin in later life, when he bolted for New Mexico...
...facetious. I’m not. I love R. Kelly and I’m not ashamed to say it. His discography is the soundtrack to my life and I follow the Gospel according to R. on a daily basis. A sinner and a saint, R. Kelly is the prophet for the 21st-century, a time in which materialism and sexual profligacy can compliment rather than contradict brotherhood and spirituality. His mysterious persona exists in the twilight hours between the V.I.P. lounge and the church pews, stuck in a perpetual cycle of hedonism and repentance. From church choirboy to transcontinental...