Iran President: “We must prepare to rule the world”

Yes, the Iranian mullahs may very well be that crazy[*1] :

“We must believe in the fact that Islam is not confined to geographical borders, ethnic groups and nations. It’s a universal ideology that leads the world to justice”, Ahmadinejad said. “We don’t shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world”, he added. Ahmadinejad dwelled on his recurrent theme that the return of the Shiite Messiah, the Mahdi, is not far away and Muslims must prepare for it. “We must prepare ourselves to rule the world and the only way to do that is to put forth views on the basis of the Expectation of the Return”, Ahmadinejad said, referring to the Shiite Muslim belief that the Mahdi, on his return, will establish justice in a world consumed by chaos and corruption.

Oh, by the way, these are the guys who will by all reports have a nuclear bomb by summer, 2006.

Does this bother you? At all?