Find First Source, Connection between Islam & 666, Hoax, Conspiracy, or just plain stupidity?
People make such a big deal saying "666," the number of the name of the Beast, is considered holy in Islam, or that "In the Name of God" in Arabic looks like "666" (but it really doesn't if you look critically), but where does this all come from, really?
There are some "Muslims sites" that promote it, particularly in English, which appear to represent the makers' personal beliefs and not Islam general, more comparable to "the Bible Code" which used to be popular but little more or to claims made by Nostradamians moving letters around like the 3rd antichrist name "Mabus" become "Sudam" as in "Saddam Hussain" which some believed until he was hung.
Other sites with a clear axe to grind against Islam seem to speak more from rambling of hate rather than intellectual analysis, gathering many different ideas, building a pile of evidence, so that when people see they stop thinking and conform to what the site claims without any further critical study.
All this hype all over the place, WHERE DID THIS ALL BEGIN? When did people start promoting the supposed close relationship between Islam, Madhi, etc and 666? Who in Islam is actually holding dear the number 666?
Don't give me "IT LOOKS LIKE" stuff or quotes from "somewhere" without citing a source to which I can trace it back.
Give me something that represents Islam general, not a terrorist group(s) or independent sites, but something that stands for all Islam, or at least one or two of the major sects in Islam.