Since the mainstream media are not reporting this, I thought it might be of interest to readers to complete what I wrote yesterday.

After its battle in Dabiq,  the caliphate will go on to sack Istanbul, destroy Israel and continue to expand, since expansion is the essential duty of the Caliph. At some point an anti-Messiah, known in Muslim apocalyptic literature as Dajjal, will come from the Khorasan region of eastern Iran and kill the caliphate’s fighters, leaving  just 5,000 alive, cornered in Jerusalem. Just as Dajjal prepares to finish them off, Jesus—the second-most-revered prophet in Islam—will return to Earth, spear Dajjal, and lead the Muslims to victory.  In other words, true moslems will regain the holy city.  Since God has preordained the near-destruction of his people anyway it really doesn’t matter whether you survive to fight under Jesus or are killed as a suicide bomber or in an attack on Istanbul – you will have fulfilled the wishes of God and will ascend to heaven to claim your free virgins.  Either way you win!

Why is this relevant to Epicureanism?  Because it is the very antithesis of everything Epicureanism stands for and everything we should collectively reject.  Just don’t allow our politicians to be drawn into fulfilling the bloodthirsty prophesies of this most disagreeable of all religious sects.