Posted on 05/29/2011 10:23:43 PM PDT by PRePublic
In prayer, Jews face Jerusalem but Muslims face Mecca
Victor Sharpe Sunday, May 29, 2011
The late Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren Sounds the Shofar (Rams Horn) upon the Recapture in June, 1967 of Jerusalems holy Jewish site, the Western Wall, from Jordanian Muslim occupation
Jerusalem Unification Day has again been celebrated in Israel and throughout the world with the exception of that 7th century alternate universe: the Muslim world.
It marks 44 years since the amazing and miraculous event took place when the Jewish peoples 3,000 year old capital city was restored to the Jewish state in the 1967 Six-Day War.
For 19 long years from 1948 to 1967, Jordan had occupied Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and the eastern half of Jerusalem. Only Pakistan and Britain had ever recognized Jordans illegal occupation.
The British officered Jordanian Arab Legion had forced out at gunpoint the Jewish residents of the Old City and the neighboring Jewish villages: It was Apartheid and ethnic cleansing, Arab style.
The Legion went on to desecrate the Jewish graves on the ancient Mount of Olives and use the headstones as latrines. They desecrated over 50 synagogues and forbade Jewish pilgrims to worship at their holy places. They had turned the Via Delarosa, the Way of the Cross, into a filthy, sewerage strewn alley through which Christian pilgrims were forced to walk.
Jordan cut the Holy City in half ...
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I just asked him about what you said: “I heard from religious authorities that the cult of radical Islam [that believes in suicide/homicide/killing missions ‘for allah’] is considered idol worshiping.”
His answer: “Worship of anything but the Trinity, is idol worship”.
So, I would say that you are right.
You got it, Islamofacism is at war with the Christian faith.
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