Bonus Sample: The New Age Muslim Apocalyptic Prophet

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.0 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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From a repurposed orphanage in the North of England, Abdullah Hashem tells his audience in five languages, across two satellite TV companies, and multiple social media channels that he is the successor of Jesus and Mohammed, the “one true Pope” for Christians. In his carefully staged and ominously lit “basilica,” he lectures to his 200 residential followers (who emulate his idiosyncratic fashion style) about angels, aliens, reincarnation, and a planet where giant rabbits keep humans as pets. Oh and all about the coming apocalypse and his divinely chosen role in it. Who is this American-Egyptian cult leader? Hashem grew up in Indiana, and got his start in college making documentary films debunking cult leaders and UFO hoaxes. Some time in his early twenties he went full conspiritualist, made an eight-hour film about esoteric knowledge, Quranic-prophecy, the Illuminati, and the End Times. He moved to Egypt and declared himself the Mahdi—a messianic figure from Islamic eschatology. Former members tell of bizarre loyalty tests, financial exploitation, and other forms of abuse. Meanwhile Hashem broadcasts that the fall of the Iranian theocracy clears the way for his ascension into his divine appointment as philosopher king. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The animals are the ones that have homes.
0:05.0	Oh my gosh.
0:08.0	The human beings don't have homes.
0:10.0	Whoa.
0:11.0	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.
0:27.7	This whole earth was given to me by my father. You can't be a person who has homes like they do
0:35.5	and enjoy the state of the devil and at the same time also enjoy the kingdom of God or the divine just state.
0:42.3	Heads up everyone, a new savior just dropped. In an unusual wrinkle though, this one identifies as a Muslim.
0:50.3	He grew up in the US and now lives in the north of England, where he blends 12er Shia Islam,
0:56.6	which is the sect that has dominated Iran in an authoritarian theocracy for the last 47 years,
1:02.5	with conspiracy theories about the Illuminati and how UFOs carry interdimensional spirits made
1:08.6	from smokeless fire with the free will to be good or evil.
1:13.0	Some of his decidedly new age discourses, tell of reincarnation, the soul world, and a planet where
1:20.6	giant rabbits keep humans as pets. No surprise then that he endorses psychedelic drugs as a gateway to spiritual knowledge.
1:28.8	But it's not all Lewis Carroll and the X-Files.
1:33.0	Abdullah Hashem also teaches an end-time prophecy in which he is the central figure sent to guide humanity.
1:41.2	With the stakes this high, many of his followers sell their houses and then give him
1:46.4	the money, and they enact a blood oath initiation ritual to show their loyalty. The blood is then
1:53.1	apparently saved in a sacred vessel and kept in a replica of the Ark of the Covenant.
2:00.4	Okay, so here we go.
2:02.6	I'm sure you've noticed that the world is horribly complicated right now.
2:06.6	As the Gulf states gear up their response to Iran's attacks,
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