Holiness of Jerusalem to Islam has always been politically motivated

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3596681,00.html ^ | Mordechai Kedar

[ventanax5]

When the Prophet Mohammad established Islam, he introduced a minimum of innovations. He employed the hallowed personages, historic legends and sacred sites of Judaism and Christianity, and even paganism, by Islamizing them. Thus, according to Islam, Abraham was the first Muslim and Jesus and St. John (the sons of Miriam, sister of Moses and Aron) were prophets and guardians of the second heaven. Many Biblical legends ("asatir al-awwalin",) which were familiar to the pagan Arabs before the dawn of Islam, underwent an Islamic conversion, and the Koran as well as the Hadith (the Islamic oral tradition), are replete with them.

Islamization was practiced on places as well as persons: Mecca and the holy stone - al-Ka'bah - were holy sites of the pre-Islamic pagan Arabs. The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and the Great Mosque of Istanbul were erected on the sites of Christian-Byzantine churches - two of the better known examples of how Islam treats sanctuaries of other faiths.

[Iron Munro]

Three things I never did care for:

1 - Home-made stupid names (ie: Vulv’a lytis)

2 - Home-made fake holidays (ie: Kwanzaa)

3 - Home-made death cults masquerading as religions (ie: islam)

[Colorado Cowgirl]

Amen Brother! Semper Fidelis.

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[Cvengr]

It’s an interesting observation, manifesting the consequences in any thinking system independent of God ultimately fails to glorify God.

Whereas the holiness or setting aside of Jerusalem has been performed by God, a false religion attributes such holiness to anything other than God, including even the denial of the false god of Islam.

[Iron Munro]

Semper Fi ‘til I die!!!