Posted on 12/19/2016 7:22:38 AM PST by Eleutheria5
The media has been abuzz with reports that President-elect Donald Trump intends to honor his pre-election promise to act on the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act –– whose implementation has been deferred by six-monthly waivers invoked by successive presidents, most recently last week by President Obama –– and move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Why has the Act, passed by massive majorities in the Senate (93-5) and House (374-37), remained a dead letter for 21 years?
Fear of enraging the Arab street and the Muslim world, most of which has neither reconciled itself to Israel’s existence nor even the peoplehood of the Jews and thus the Jewish immemorial association and claim to the city, is the short answer.
This clamor and fixation on Jerusalem, quite recent in Muslim history, has led many to conclude that Jerusalem is holy to Islam; therefore any U.S move ahead of a peace settlement is premature.
As it happens, however, its a propaganda lie....
Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Quran...References in the Quran and hadith to the ‘farthest mosque,’ in allusion to which the Al Aqsa Mosque is named, and which has sometimes been invoked to connect Islam to Jerusalem since its earliest days, clearly doesn’t refer to a mosque which didn’t exist in Muhammad’s day.
Indeed, the site of the biblical temples is called Temple Mount, not the Mosque Mount and –– in contrast to innumerable Palestinian Authority statements today –– was acknowledged as such for decades in the Jerusalem Muslim Supreme Council’s publication, ‘A Brief Guide to the Haram Al-Sharif’, which states on p. 4 that ‘Its identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute.” (After 1954, all such references to the biblical temples disappeared from this publication).
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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Ping.
By my understanding, the muslims have a concocted myth that Jerusalem is holy to them because, when mohammed died, his soul rode his spirit-horse to heaven, last-touching earth at the special site in Jerusalem. Of course, there is no way to prove or disprove that theory. So it is a fairy tale.
The flying horse’s name was barrack, by the way, so, in essence, mohammed mounted barrack, which seems highly appropriate, given what we now know.
So he skipped town, and was last seen with a horse named Barrack.
Skipped is right. He always skips wherever he goes.
That's funny, Michael Robinson has the face of a man, the breasts of a woman and is a horse's ass.
Epileptic fit.
Then he [Gabriel] brought the Buraq, handsome-faced and bridled, a tall, white beast, bigger than the donkey but smaller than the mule. He could place his hooves at the farthest boundary of his gaze. He had long ears. Whenever he faced a mountain his hind legs would extend, and whenever he went downhill his front legs would extend. He had two wings on his thighs which lent strength to his legs.
http://www.brotherpete.com/index.php?topic=1713.0
Superstitious tent dwelling arabs of the desert might have been persuaded to believe this but it sounds like a drug induced dream imo.
It's ok now to call a spade; a spade...
(Jerusalem's) holiness to Muslims is a LIE!
Ok.. so my pretty pony popped instantly into my mind. Barrack lol.. For the rest of the day, obama riding on my pretty ponies are stuck in my head.. thanks and Merry Christmas.
Oh, no! I am so sorry...
Start thinking of sugarplums (I can’t really describe them for you, though); you’ll have to use that vivid imagination.
When Doughy went to the region that is now known as the Saudi kingdom, he tells us in his book published in 1888, that because he was a doctor, he was continuously asked to write charms for the ailing - their medicine for everything was words from the Koran written on a piece of paper that was dunked into a receptacle of water, and when the calligraphy had washed off, they drank it.
Arabia Deserta. Two volumes. It’s a real eye-opener.These are the people the Arabist Philip K Hitti tells the world invented everything under the sun, to whom we owe everything that makes us civilised. And his work is still being used in educational institutions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Khuri_Hitti
“He almost single-handedly created the discipline of Arabic Studies in the United States.”
I'd bet that in much of the USA of that period, similar things were called 'doctoring' as well.
Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease. According to germ theory, a specific disease is caused by a specific organism. Before this discovery, most doctors believe diseases are caused by spontaneous generation. In fact, doctors would perform autopsies on people who died of infectious diseases and then care for living patients without washing their hands, not realizing that they were therefore transmitting the disease.
1879 First vaccine for cholera
1881 First vaccine for anthrax
1882 First vaccine for rabies
1890 Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
1895 German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays.
1896 First vaccine for typhoid fever.
1897 Ronald Ross, a British officer in the Indian Medical Service, demonstrates that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes, although French army surgeon Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran identified parasites in the blood of a malaria patient in 1880. The treatment for malaria was identified much earlier (and is still used today). The Qinghao plant (Artemisia annua) was described in a Chinese medical treatise from the 2nd century BCE; the active ingredient, known as artemisinin, was isolated by Chinese scientists in 1971 and is still used today. The more commonly known treatment, quinine, was derived from the bark of a tree called Peruvian bark or Cinchona and was introduced to the Spanish by indigenous people in South America during the 17th century.
1897 First vaccine for plague.
1899 Felix Hoffman develops aspirin (acetyl salicylic acid). The juice from willow tree bark had been used as early as 400 BC to relieve pain. 19th century scientists knew that it was the salicylic acid in the willow that made it work, but it irritated the lining of the mouth and stomach. Hoffman synthesizes acetyl salicylic acid, developing what is now the most widely used medicine in the world.
1901 Austrian-American Karl Landsteiner describes blood compatibility and rejection (i.e., what happens when a person receives a blood transfusion from another human of either compatible or incompatible blood type), developing the ABO system of blood typing. This system classifies the bloods of human beings into A, B, AB, and O groups. Landsteiner receives the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for this discovery.
Maybe in Indiana, but not where I come from.
But nobody’s drinking piss from the camel’s pizzle.
They have all just washed their hair in it.
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