I call Shenanigans.
I've read both articles in question. The original Islamic scholar "thoughts of the day" column and World "Axe to grind" Net Daily's seriously misleading write-up.
Aparently they (WND) were counting on people not bothering to read the entire page on account of it's extreme length and bad design (black text over a photo, blegh)
The Islamist article is not doom-mongering, if anyone were to read it, they'd see it mentions scholars think the messiah would come in the equinox of the year he was due, not giving a year. Ironically, the article mentions right-wingers like Pat Robertson going on about how 2007 will be the year of judgement day. The article, of course, explicitly mentions the whole "no-one knows when, only God" thing. So doing away with MND's points completely.
Typical WND bull. It's becoming more of a parody of itself than anthing remotely close to a valid opinions column. The "raditation detecting keyfobs" sort of give it away.