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Newsday articles must be excerpted

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[2banana]

Islamic Strategy for dominating other religions.

Build mosques on top of other religion's holy shrines. That way they can never be turned back over to their rightful owners...ever...

Because, now they are Muslim Holy Shrines.

[veracious]

Just another form of thrashing the Israelis, take this
important holy site and do whatever they want. There is
no accountability for this Islamic oversight organization.
They obviously are in a position to damage things, and
probably are...

[Cicero]

Muslims have been digging under the Temple Mount and destroying archaeological objects--or sacred relics, if you prefer--for many years. Nothing new about it, I'm afraid. Barak was happy to let them do it, and Sharon is reluctant to raise the issue, especially since Muslims and their apologists blame the Intifada on his (authorized) visit to the Temple Mount some years ago.

One foundation wall is bulging and cracked, and some sources have suggested that it might be in danger of collapsing, bringing down the Dome of the Rock with it. If that happened, no doubt Muslims would blame it on the Jews, and we'd see the Intifada get even worse.

[SJackson]

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[MarcoPolo]

Um...I think that the Second Temple was destroyed prior to that time. If I'm not mistaken, the Second Temple was built under the supervision of Zerubbabel in the 500s and 400s B.C. It was destroyed some time later, and a Third Temple was constructed in the last century B.C. by King Herod "the Great." It was this temple which was destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70 under the rule of Emperor Flavius Vespasianus.

[farmfriend]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs
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A little unvarnished background:

Arutz Sheva 2/1/04
Thousands Visit Temple Mount in Five Months
Over 10,000 Jews have ascended the Temple Mount in the past five months, since the site was reopened to non-Muslim visitors.

The site had been off-limits to non-Muslims for nearly three years due to security concerns and because it is under Arab control. The daily administration of the Temple Mount is in the hands of two Waqfs – one appointed by Jordan and one appointed by Yasser Arafat. They are at odds with each other and both are at odds with the Jews. Over the past several years, there has been a campaign by Islam to utterly destroy – erase and eradicate – any vestige of Jewish presence on the Temple Mount.

“It is an effort to re-write history,” said Assistant Director of The Temple Center Rabbi Hayim Richman in an interview published on the Israel Hasbara Committee website (www.infoisrael.net). “The official position of Islam is that there never was a Temple on the Temple Mount.” The Arabs, under the auspices of the Waqfs, have destroyed much of the archeological evidence that there was a Temple; the Arabs have even used bulldozers.

The Temple Mount is the Jews’ holiest site; the word Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Koran even once. It is mentioned over 700 times in the Jewish canon.