Islam is a relatively pure form of Antichrist in that it flatly denies that God has a son, flatly denies that the person of Jesus (who it gives the alternative name Isa) died on the cross, and through the Qur'an also teaches that Islam is to ultimately destroy all Jews and Christians. Indeed, rather chilling is the fact that it calls for their beheading, the very form of execution spoken of in Revelation 20:4.
Shia and Sunni Islam's expectation is for the return of Isa who will lead a great army to destroy the enemies of Islam and establish an Islamic world empire to be governed by the Mahdi ("guided one") until Yawm al-Qiyamah1 ("the day of resurrection"). It has been quite rightly pointed out that this bears strong potential parallels to the role of the false prophet and Antichrist in establishing a world empire that makes war against the saints. Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist turned Christian
Evangelist even points out the similarity between the Greek symbols translated in the Bible as 666
and the Arabic character for Allah. Also, in terms of the flow of Daniel's prophecy concerning the line of kingdoms out of which the beast would come, like western culture Islam arises out of regions that were once part of the Roman Empire; the Eastern arm rather than the Western. Even just from this
quick overview you can probably start to perceive the compelling arguments for Islam being the
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source of Antichrist.