I was shocked to learn that the Dome of The Rock was originally built by the Caliph
AS A GIFT TO JEWS FOR A PLACE FOR THEM TO PRAY AND WORSHIP.
WHAT AN EVIL FARCE ISLAM IS.
Totally duplicitous, if you ask me.
Maybe back in the day of the Caliph, things were more rational and humane. But since the rise of Wahabbism as the reining Islamic orthodoxy, it seems things have been running downhill in the Muslim world, back to the 12th century at least. And Taliban, I imagine, haven't thunk themselves out of the 7th century yet....
We did not choose these people as our enemies. They chose us.
We as a people cannot long pretend that this is not so, without putting ourselves and everything we believe in and care about into mortal jeopardy.
I understand the Dome of the Rock didn't become a "holy site" to Muslims until 1939. And Israel became a state in 1948.
Maranatha, Jesus!!!