Posted on 10/15/2015 8:57:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
So the New York Times lapsed into what has been called Temple Trutherism by trying to deny the existence of the Jewish temples on the Temple Mount. Their work was taken down by Liel Leibowitz at The Tablet and others. The Times offered a limited correction.
But let's have some equal time here.
The Temple Mount is holy to Jews because of the Temples. So the New York Times chose to discuss whether the Temples really existed. It's holy to Muslims because Mohammed supposedly flew there on a flying horse (with a woman's head).
Can we get a discussion of whether that really happened? Or does the New York Times only find it acceptable to mock Judaism, not Islam?
Let's interview some of the same scholars and archeologists as to whether the entire Muslim basis for laying claim to the area has any basis in reality. The New York Times discusses the need for "independent scientific verification" of the Temples. How about "independent scientific verification" of this?
Here are some things for the New York Times to verify...
1. Buraq was a flying horse with a woman's head. Can we get any verification that such a creature ever existed.
2. Buraq flew from Mecca to Jerusalem and back in one night. "The distance between Mecca and Jerusalem is 755.1 miles. To complete this feat in one night would have meant that Buraq must have been jet propelled in the 7th Century." Please provide independent scientific verification of the existence of a flying horse with a woman's head that can travel faster than the speed of sound.
Oddly the New York Times doesn't appear to be interested in independent scientific verification of Islamic Supremacist myths.
No is does not..
The story is about a horse with a women face..
Sarah Jessica Parker is a women with a horse face
If Sarah Jessica Parker marry John Kerry...and they had kids..little ..Flicka and Trigger ...
This is the type of nonsense these idiotic muslims actually believe.
Mr Ed reruns every time their children winny.
‘Flying Horse’ is probably just a metaphor for the effects of heavy opium intoxication.
Why do we even give credence to this crap?
Rah rah to relativism, except when one of the proposals isn’t all that comfortable to them. They must be unhappier with the idea of the biblical God than they are with this Islamic Allah.
Basically they got caught with spiritual pants down.
A dream, or a fantasy
Supposed to be magic. Magic doesn’t follow the rules (except of the enabling entity behind the magic of course).
Or it could be a creation of the fallen angels as explained in Genesis. It says fallen angels were smitten by the beauty of human women and mingled their seed with human women which created giants (like the one David had to fight for God when he was a boy - Goliath).
It references that the fallen angels also mingled their seed with animals. This could have come out to be dinosaurs - giant reptilians or chimeras as depicted in this story by Mohammad. That is just my guess of what was created when the fallen angels mixed their seed with animals. I was raised Catholic and they just skip over this messy part of Genesis like they do in other parts of the Bible - from my experience.
In Greek mythology there are creatures that are part human or angelic and part animal called chimeras. Since Mohammad took the Old and New Testament and turned them up-side-down for his fallen god and false truth, he could have mixed in Greek mythology, too. Who knows. I read a lot of the Koran, and it’s the Bible’s God and creation turned up-side-down. The horrific crimes of Isis is Islam’s imitation of Satan’s hatred of mankind in action. It is not “the religion of peace” and the terrorists are acting in accordance with the Koran. Their god, Allah, inspires misery and death, as does Satan - the opposite of God.
If you study the Bible on descriptions of classes of angels, they are not at all like we depict in pictures of angels. They can also take different forms when on missions from God to earth.
I once asked a very smart Lutheran Synod Bible scholar who I respect and love about the fallen angels coming to earth and mingling their seed with human women as described in Genesis. He said that the fallen angels’ genetic manipulation of mankind and it’s evil creation (giants) multiplying on earth and wiping out God’s creation - man and animals - is central reason for God causing the Noah’s flood. I said to him that I thought angels were created without the ability to reproduce. He said he never understood the mingling of seed until modern genetics came along.
This is from me not him: It looks like some ignorant modern men with no ethics are on the path to the genetic manipulation of man and animal, as did the fallen angels. That’s a great idea, huh. ; )
Mohammed supposedly flew there on a flying horse (with a woman's head under his arm.). Fixed it!
Who your Daddy?....”Willllllberrrrrrr!!!!”
You’re lucky you don’t work for Charlie Hebdo :)
it says:
Glory to (Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque ,b>to the farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless,- in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things).It just said "the farthest mosque". It never mentioned Jerusalem. And THERE WAS NO MOSQUE in Jerusalem until well after Mohammad died.
Hey, Maybe Allah was using the flying she-horse to give him a glimpse of the future.... :)
Inside the Dome is an outcropping of the bedrock of Mount Moriah, the "Sacred Rock." On the rock's pock-marked surface is one indentation which is believed to be the footprint left by Mohammed as he leapt into heaven. (Pilgrims over the centuries have whittled off pieces of the rock---the Crusaders especially were known to chip "holy souvenirs" from it.) Mount Moriah is a long, extended hill in Jerusalem, extending north from the City of David and extending beyond the present North wall of the Old City. That same hill is the traditional site of Abraham's sacrificial altar for Isaac, the threshing floor or Araunah, and the site of the First and the Second Temple.
The Dome of the Rock
In A.D. 691 Caliph Abd el-Malik commissioned the best architects to build the Dome of the Rock. His plan was based upon a Fourth Century Christian shrine on the Mount of Olives marking the site of Jesus' Ascension. The Caliph's new shrine was deliberately built as a political, economic, and religious counter attraction to Mecca. Medina and Mecca, the two cities holy to Islam, were under the control of a rival Caliph. Abd El-Malik sought to build up the importance of Jerusalem as an Islamic center for pilgrimage and worship. The holy spot of Judaism was now to be identified with the spot where Mohammed's horse ascended to heaven.
Speaking more generally, the name "Jerusalem" never occurs in the Koran, and neither does any alternate name for that city.
Nonsense. It doesn’t look like a horse’s face at all.
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