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Violent extremist Sunni and Shiite Muslims are at odds about most things. Mostly of the points that they can agree upon in the midst of their battle of common annihilation is that the Apocalypse is approaching and that they are the soldiers of its harbinger and redeemer: the Mahdi. Across the Islamic world, the physique of the Mahdi has came out with increasing prevalence in the last few generations: the "Mahdi Military" patrols Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, a large number of Mahdi impersonators rot in Iranian prisons, the feared Boko Haram military aims to bring about the appearance of the Mahdi in Nigeria, and the leader of the Islamic Point out improved his name, allowing him to fulfill the prophecy that the Mahdi would be called "Abdullah" and "ibn Muhammad." The Shi'a have always got a deep mental connection to the notion in the approaching of the Mahdi. Actually most Shi'a think that he has already come to Earth by means of their invisible ("occulted") Twelfth Imam, who have watched over mankind for centuries. As the minority group within Islam, they have often resided in lands dominated by Sunnis and typically view the Sunni rulers as corrupt and having transformed their backs on true Islam. At the same time, the Mahdi has played out an essential role among Sunnis, and the modern-day obsession with the Mahdi, the "Mahdaviat," resulted in the go up of apocalyptic Sunni communities like ISIS. Sunnis, who are often in electric power in Islamic lands, have been less comfortable with the fundamental assumption of the fallen states of the authority. However, since the street to redemption of the last caliphate (the Ottoman Empire in 1924) and the domination of almost all of the Islamic world by European colonial powers and then naturally corrupt and frequently secular strongmen has made many Sunnis flip away from their leadership and appearance to the Mahdi for inspiration.
