Bonus Sample: The New Age Muslim Apocalyptic Prophet
Abdullah Hashem, a self-proclaimed Mahdi blending Twelver Shia Islam with New Age conspiracies, claims divine appointment from Jesus and Imam al-Mahdi. Broadcasting from northern England, he promotes psychedelic gateways, blood oath rituals, and a prophecy requiring followers to sell homes for his cause. Having infiltrated the Ra'alien UFO cult and produced debunking documentaries before embracing full conspiratorialism, Hashem now teaches that interdimensional spirits inhabit smokeless fire while geopolitical tensions rise between Gulf states, Iran, Israel, and America. Ultimately, his fusion of authoritarian religious structures with fringe esotericism illustrates the volatile convergence of traditional faith and modern conspiracy culture in the digital age. [Automatically generated summary]
the human beings don't have homes if you want to be a follower of me the divinely appointed caliph know that i am i don't have a home I am a king who has been dethroned.
I don't have a state.
This whole earth was given to me by my father.
You can't be a person who has homes like they do and enjoy the state of the devil and at the same time also enjoy the kingdom of God or the divine just state.
Heads up, everyone.
A new savior just dropped.
In an unusual wrinkle, though, this one identifies as a Muslim.
He grew up in the US and now lives in the north of England where he blends Twelver Shia Islam, which is the sect that has dominated Iran in an authoritarian theocracy for the last 47 years, with conspiracy theories about the Illuminati and how UFOs carry interdimensional spirits made from smokeless fire with the free will to be good or evil.
Some of his decidedly new age discourses tell of reincarnation, the soul world, and a planet where giant rabbits keep humans as pets.
No surprise then that he endorses psychedelic drugs as a gateway to spiritual knowledge.
But it's not all Lewis Carroll and the X-Files.
Abdullah Hashem also teaches an end times prophecy in which he is the central figure sent to guide humanity.
With the stakes this high, many of his followers sell their houses and then give him the money and they enact a blood oath initiation ritual to show their loyalty.
The blood is then apparently saved in a sacred vessel and kept in a replica of the Ark of the Covenant.
Okay, so here we go.
I'm sure you've noticed that the world is horribly complicated right now.
As the Gulf states gear up their response to Iran's attacks and Israel and America continue their controversial and illegal war against the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps,
And the dictatorial regime that an overwhelming majority of the terrified population want removed, this heretic of Twelver Shia Islam is folding current events into his own end times prophecy and broadcasting live lectures about it to his passionate inner circle from a grandiose and ominously lit compound in England, to the world via two satellite TV channels and popular social media accounts in five different languages.
So who is this man and what even is Twelver Shia Islam?
And how did a kid from Indiana end up declaring himself a prophesied messianic end times figure?
There's a lot to unpack.
On that note, welcome to Conspirituality, where we investigate the intersections of conspiracy theories and spiritual influence to uncover cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian extremism.
I'm Julian Walker.
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I tell the truth and I'm the father of truth.
I'm absolutely sent from the heavens and I was sent forward to the Muslims by Imam al-Mahdi, sent forward to the Christians by Jesus and we have them with us in this call.
For the Jews, we have with us the prophets and the messengers and the angels.
So that's Abdullah Hashem Abba al-Sadiq, born in Indiana of an American mother and Egyptian father.
In 2005, when he was around 22, he and a friend became interested in the Ra'alians.
Remember them?
I've covered them in depth here before.
This is that UFO cult led by Frenchman Claude Vourion, who claimed to have had encounters with extraterrestrials in 1973 and that they'd given him a mission to prepare humanity for their eventual return to transform us.
He claimed that our origins were in the stars and that all prophets had been sent by a group of enlightened and technologically advanced aliens called the Elohim, and that aboard their spaceship, he had met Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, and the Buddha.
You know, the standard stuff.
He taught that the Elohim were super feminine, and so women are actually more spiritual than men.
Men should strive to become more feminine.
And also that our evolved state was one of free love and pansexuality as a panacea for our violent impulses.
Now, Hashem and his friend Joseph Magoen actually infiltrated the Ra'elian cult and created this derogatory expose documentary film about it.
And this led to lawsuits from the Raelians.
Here they are in the one TV interview they did around the documentary.
Joni, thanks.
He grabbed headlines a few years ago claiming he had produced the first human clone.
Remember the stories of Clonade and a man named Rail?
Two Indiana filmmakers will premiere a documentary tonight about the man and the Railian revolution.
Abdullah Hashim and Joseph McGowan join us this morning to tell us why and how they got inside this so-called sex cult.
First of all, again, why?
Why did you have a desire to do a documentary and how did you get inside this cult?
Well, Angela, I'm a weird guy myself and I'm interested in weird things.
So, yeah, we actually worked on a documentary before about a Yeti hunter who hunts Bigfoot.
So we decided that the next step would be the UFO cult.
What did you guys find when you got inside?
I think we have some of the documentaries of the film that you guys again are premiering tonight.
What was it like?
Was it what you expected?
It was very strange.
It was a lot stranger than I expected because I'd never been in an environment like that before.
But it's definitely an experience I wouldn't take back either.
Now, this film was never really widely distributed and they did get into a lot of cumbersome lawsuits from the Raelians.
After this project, the pair made another film debunking and ridiculing a black Hebrew Israelite leader who claimed to be able to summon UFOs at will.
But then after that came an eight-hour documentary called The Arrivals, during the making of which, Hashem appears to have gone full conspiratualist.
Moving to Egypt00:00:43
It would lead to him moving to Egypt and then eventually locating himself within Islamic prophecy as a messianic figure called Mahdi.
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