[Cronos]

Islam considers itself pure Judaism. It keeps a variation of halasha and of kosher. If there was a third temple (which there wasn’t), it would have not only been spared, but made into a mosque.

[Don W]

Well, except for the whole “Kill ALL Jews and Christians” thing, I suppose it is the purest form of Judaism.

Do people even THINK when they write stuff like this?

[Verginius Rufus]

I think Omar deliberately did not enter any churches during his visit to Jerusalem so that his followers would not try to turn them into mosques.

The period up to the destruction of the Temple by the Romans is called the Second Temple Period. But in the New Testament they refer to Herod the Great's having built the Temple. Did he just restore and improve the one built after the return from the Babylonian captivity?