Is the Mark of the Beast Upon Muslims?

I have come upon a disturbing bit of information, and it happened entirely by chance. It may be an extraordinary coincidence or something else.

Only yesterday, as I was browsing the ‘Net, I came across across a brief discussion of something called a zabiba, or Muslim prayer bump. This is basically a callus or scaly patch of skin some fanatical Muslims develop on their foreheads by hitting it too hard on the ground while prostrate in worship of Allah. I initially thought this unsightly bump on the head was just another oafish aspect of Mohammed’s queer religion. I considered writing a post about it, but discarded the idea. I thought it was not significant enough.

That assessment changed drastically when I happened to watch the Glenn Beck show online. It should be understood that I had never before watched that show online, and only two or three times on television. However, I am rather interested in the current developments in the Middle East, which Glenn Beck discusses in a realistic way, unlike almost every other mainstream media figure. He does not subscribe to the politically correct pablum about an "Arab Spring." So I thought I would give his show a try.

A search led me to the video below. The whole thing is well worth watching, but the crucial portion starts at about 33:00 and lasts only one minute. A transcript of that portion of the show also follows, with the most important passages in bold:

Video and Partial Transcript of the Glenn Beck Show of February 17, 2011

Starting at 33:10 on the accompanying video.

Glenn Beck: But then you get to the Mark of the Beast. The Mark of the Beast... Christians believe, you know, that you’re going to get some sort of a number and you’re marked.

Joel Richardson: According to the Bible, the Mark of the Beast is a mark that is put on the foreheads, that essentially condemns someone to Hell. On the Islamic side, the Muslims have picked up on this tradition, except that in Muslim tradition the Beast is a good guy and he marks the foreheads of all true Muslims, and in essence Muslims are desiring that they would receive the Mark of the Beast.

Glenn Beck: And this... who’s the Beast, the Anti-Christ or is...

Joel Richardson: The Beast, according to Islamic tradition, is a literal beast that comes up out of the earth.

Glenn Beck [pointing at blackboard where features of the Beast are listed]: Ahmadinejad, when he says the Twelfth Imam, he wants this guy to come?

Joel Richardson: He wants the Mahdi.

[Transcriber’s note: as the previous discussion during the show had made clear, the Mahdi is the Sunni counterpart to the Shiite Twelfth Imam.]

Glenn Beck [pointing at blackboard where features of the Beast are listed]: Okay, perfect. Hasten the return of this guy.


Now, my friends, I submit to you these pictures of Muslims bearing the zabiba, none of which has been altered:

Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second in command

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Underwear Bomber

Imran Sheikh Attari, radical cleric from Pakistan

Abdel-Latif Moussa, radical cleric from Gaza

Unknown Muslim

Mohammad Reza Naghdi, commander of Iran's Basij militia

Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, murderer of Salman Taseer

Unknown Muslim

What this sad gallery shows is that the zabiba is usually seen not on ordinary Muslims, but on individuals who have truly chosen the path of evil, who have dedicated their lives to jihad and to the promotion of the most militant forms of Mohammedanism. That is why I believe the connection to the biblical Mark of the Beast is valid.

One issue that must be discussed. The Bible states that the Mark of the Beast is a number or a name (Rev. 13:16-17), but could it be possible that the zabiba is a sort of embryonic mark to "reward" the most loyal adepts of evil in the time before the Beast's rule begins? Later, when plausible deniability is no longer necessary, the "prayer bump" might metamorphose into the actual Mark of the Beast.

Incidentally, the zabiba is most commonly found in Egypt, the very country liberals are portraying out as the new beacon of democracy of the Middle East.

Islam is a false religion of brutality and subjugation. Those who dedicate themselves to it in effect dedicate themselves to evil. So make your judgment: do these Muslims have the Mark of the Beast upon their foreheads?