Originally posted by whodey
If I recall, in Daniel I think there is some evidence that he comes from the "Beautiful Land", spoken of by Daniel. Translated, that means he comes from the land of Palestine. I think from there people infer that he is Muslim because today the majority are Muslim.
You may be refering to one of two passages.
"He will enter into the beautiful land ..." (Dan 11:41). If that does refer to the Antichrist it only says that he
"will enter" into that land but not that it is the land of his origin.
Then again you could be refering to
Daniel 11:16. which says
"And he will stand in the brautiful land ...". That of course is standing, not necessarily meaning that it is the land of his origin (if it refers to Antichrist).
The beautiful land is Israel. Daniel was in captivity and longed to return to his homeland of Israel -
"the beautiful land".
Now I am very rusty on this subject, but I think the verse which some point to as revealing his place of origin is here:
"And out of one of them [horns] came forth a little horn, which grew very great toward the south, toward the east, and toward that which is beautiful." (Daniel 8:9).
The teaching I received was that
"toward" the three directions would leave a fourth direction which would likely be that of the origin of the little horn. It was reasoned that
that direction would be toward Greece.