VFTB 289: Dr. Timothy Furnish – ISIS and the Roots of Mahdism

PRESIDENT OBAMA is not responsible for ISIS. Neither is George W. Bush. As much as it may rankle political commentators and the politically correct, the seeds of the Islamic State were planted in the 7th century.Dr. Timothy Furnish, a scholar of Islamic history, expert on political Islam and Mahdism, and the author of the new books Ten Years' Captivation with the Mahdi's Camps and Sects, Lies, and the Caliphate, explains why the roots of the Islamic State reach back much farther than America's recent military adventures in Iraq.Links to articles by Dr. Furnish. Note that he predicted the rise of a group like ISIS almost ten years before it declared its caliphate:* Beheading in the Name of Islam (Spring 2005)* What's Worse than Violent Jihadists? (July 25, 2005)Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details.Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network.Download a smaller, lower-fidelity version of the mp3 of this show by clicking here.