Posted on 03/03/2004 4:12:05 PM PST by Alouette
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's wish to be buried on the Temple Mount is stirring an emotional debate among Palestinians. Leaflets distributed in Jerusalem on Wednesday by the Muslim Liberation Party called for thwarting Arafat's plan.
Sources close to Arafat confirmed that the PA chairman has asked his supporters in Jerusalem to check the possibility of burying him near the Aksa Mosque.
Jerusalem police recently detained three Arab residents of Jerusalem on suspicion they were putting pressure on the Muslim Wakf (religious trust) to agree to allocate a plot on the Temple Mount for the burial of Arafat. The three were served with orders banning them from entering the Temple Mount for three months.
Palestinians said some of Jerusalem's prominent Arab families are opposed to Arafat being buried on the Temple Mount. The last Palestinian to be buried on the Temple Mount was Faisal Husseini, the former PLO representative in Jerusalem, who died of a heart attack in 2001.
Husseini was buried at the site despite fierce opposition from some Palestinians, who said the privilege should be reserved only to devout Muslim figures. The Liberation Party, a tiny Muslim faction with a strong presence on the Temple Mount, spearheaded the opposition, but Husseini's aides managed to enforce their will.
A leaflet distributed in Jerusalem by the party said its members are also strongly opposed to plans to bury Arafat on the Temple Mount. Referring to Arafat, the leaflet said: "We warn this wicked infidel, who married a Christian infidel, against contemplating desecrating the holy Aksa Mosque."
Earlier this year, members of the Liberation Party prevented Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher from praying at al-Aksa. They threw shoes at him and shouted slogans accusing him and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of betraying the Arabs and Muslims.
Keep his remains, and threaten to wrap terrorists in his skin and bury them in it! (And then, tell them you're storing bits of his fat in the busses, so that any terrorist who blows himself up in one of those busses... well, you get the picture. Not a pretty picture, granted.)
The advantage of using Arafat-skin and Arafat-fat instead of similar materials from a dead pig are manifold. First, you get more for your money. I don't think they make pigs that big yet. Then, there's more value per pound. A pig may be unclean, sure -- but Arafat... hey, he's pure filth defined. And finally, you're sparing the life of an innocent pig (or ten).
Upon reading that I couldn't help but think of the scene from "Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail" where some old guy is tossed on a cart full of dead bodies and he says "But I'm not dead yet," followed by John Cleese looking furtively in both directions and then clubbing him on the head. Somehow or other, my mind is replacing the old man with Arafat...
Sources close to Arafat confirmed that the PA chairman has asked his supporters in Jerusalem to check the possibility of burying him near the Aksa Mosque.
Near is such a wonderful word - so flexible, so open to interpretation. I'm all in favor of burying him in the pig farm nearest to the Al Aksa Mosque - after he's exited the digestive tract of several of the pigs, which he can enter at any time (why wait, Yassir?).
...he just smells like it.
Seriously...we've got a Muslim group that says that little turd's not Muslim enough to be planted on the Temple Mount? After a lifetime of unleashing terror and mayhem on the "Zionist hoodlums"?
...heh, heh, heh...I love it.
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