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Muslims VANDALIZE Judaisms Holiest site
arutz sheva ^ | 03/31/05 | arutz

Posted on 03/31/2005 8:49:52 AM PST by SavedAndForgiven

An act of Islamic vandalism on a wall of Judaism’s holiest site, the Temple Mount, has elicited outrage on the part of archaeologists.

The word “Allah” was found yesterday carved into the eastern wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The Arabic letters are approximately a foot tall.

It is suspected that Arab workers brought in by the Waqf Islamic authority, which controls the Temple Mount, are the culprits. Police feel they used stone cutting tools to engrave the word into the stone, which is located about thirty feet off the ground.

The stone in question is located next to scaffolding brought in by Jordanian workers to prevent the collapse of the wall. The Temple Mount retaining wall was in danger of collapse after the Waqf engaged in massive and unsupervised excavations below the mount. The material dug out from beneath the mount was then mixed with refuse and discarded into the Kidron Valley.

Archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar of the Committee for the Prevention of the Destruction of Antiquities strongly condemned the vandalism. “They are supposed to be fixing and bolstering the wall, not carving names into the ancient structure,” the Hebrew University archaeologist told Arutz-7. “The Antiquities Authority and the police, as well, have failed to provide even elementary protection that is provided for any archaeological site, let alone the Temple Mount.”

Dr. Mazar added that the Jordanian work strengthening the walls that were weakened during the illegal construction is being carried out, "purposely," very slowly. The Committee for the Prevention of the Destruction of Antiquities warned ten months ago that the "Temple Mount has been abandoned, with no archaeological supervision whatsoever.”

“This is a shameful crime,” Mazar said. “Graffiti on an archaeological site! Can you imagine what a political storm would have resulted if graffiti with a Jewish theme had been carved into such a site?”

Dr. Mazar claims that the authority has an inclusive picture of all construction taking place on the Mount, “but I am unable to promise that we know everything. I don’t know what happens at night, and I don’t know what is being done in Solomon’s Stables [the area on the southeastern side of the Temple Mount plaza that was dug out for the construction of a new mosque –ed.].”

GOT TO THE LINK FOR A PICTURE.... DISGUSTING!!!!!!!


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To: SavedAndForgiven
This is true graffiti.

They may as well have chiseled "sh*t" or "F*ck" on the wall.

21 posted on 03/31/2005 9:53:30 AM PST by Gritty ("The Koran is our law, Jihad our way, dying in the way of Allah our highest hope-Muslim Brotherhood)
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To: SavedAndForgiven

Who was it again that built the Temple Mount? Oh yeah, the Jews.

What claim to Muslims have to Jerusalem? None, except for the fact that they invaded it.


22 posted on 03/31/2005 9:57:34 AM PST by thompsonsjkc
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To: SavedAndForgiven

Replace the stone with another one and tell the mooselimbs if it happens again, the Israeli Army will move in and administer the site.


23 posted on 03/31/2005 9:59:11 AM PST by reagan_fanatic ("Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence" - R. Kirk)
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To: reagan_fanatic
... if it happens again, the Israeli Army will move in and administer the site.

You mean this and other violations are not good enough reason?
24 posted on 03/31/2005 10:04:46 AM PST by chukcha
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To: chukcha
I think that government of Israel should be held responsible for this. Clearly, they are failing to protect Judaism holy sites that are under their control or within their control.

Yes, they are. As the article states:

The stone in question is located next to scaffolding brought in by Jordanian workers to prevent the collapse of the wall.

If the site is holy, why aren't they forbidding everyone except Orthodox Jewish men to work on it? Think the Saudis would hire an Israeli construction team to spruce up Mecca?

25 posted on 03/31/2005 10:08:45 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Yes, they are.

I am not sure. I don't see any mentioning of any government officials or departments.

I am afraid it is all going to be "swept under the rug" and no action (other than fixing the stone) will be taken.
26 posted on 03/31/2005 10:13:23 AM PST by chukcha
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To: SavedAndForgiven

"The word “Allah” was found yesterday carved into the eastern wall"

The Israelis should carve "sucks" after it.


27 posted on 03/31/2005 10:22:08 AM PST by BadAndy (Specializing in unnecessarily harsh comments.)
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To: BadAndy
The Israelis should carve "sucks" after it.

Does this mean that if someone had tattooed the word "Allah" on your forehead, you would then tattoo "sucks" after it?

28 posted on 03/31/2005 10:39:36 AM PST by chukcha
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To: bicyclerepair

They may be complicit in helping Shrillery et al set up the global antiChrist government and thereby rule briefly.

But the AC wants them dead or converted to worshipping him, too.

Thankfully, God has scheduled the removal of all who do not Love Him from the planet--in our era by all the evidence.


29 posted on 03/31/2005 10:44:29 AM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. 2 TIM 3:5)
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To: chukcha

"Does this mean that if someone had tattooed the word "Allah" on your forehead, you would then tattoo "sucks" after it?"

No, I would have it removed, after I spattered the tattooers brains all over his turban.


30 posted on 03/31/2005 10:49:58 AM PST by BadAndy (Specializing in unnecessarily harsh comments.)
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To: chukcha; Mr. Jeeves

The Temple Mount has been administered by the Muslim Wakf, currently under the control of Jordan, since 1967. Israel is responsible for security, which I suppose this could fall under, however the Wakf has been destroying artifacts for years without action being taken.


31 posted on 03/31/2005 11:42:22 AM PST by SJackson (You simply have to accept the fact that we are all corrupt-Mahmud Abbas to senior UN official, 1996)
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To: agere_contra

That's what the Arabs in East jerusalem have done in Shiloah (Silwan to Muslims). That and make it a garbage receptacle.

"Siloam , pool, SW corner of Jerusalem in the Kidron valley, mentioned in the Bible. A nearby 1,700-foot-long (518 m) tunnel, dating from the time of Hezekiah, diverted water underneath Jerusalem to the pool inside the city wall; it deprived the invading Assyrians of water during their siege of Jeruslaem. An inscription discovered in 1880 describes the cutting of the tunnel. It appears as Shiloah in Isaiah, and as Shelah in Nehemiah. Jesus directed the healed blind man to go and wash in the pool."

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0845245.html


32 posted on 03/31/2005 1:03:06 PM PST by dervish (Let Europe pay for NATO)
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To: SavedAndForgiven

The Religion of Peace wants a piece of everything and everybody. To think that you can make peace with them is utterly ridiculous.


33 posted on 03/31/2005 1:06:04 PM PST by Zivasmate (" A wise man's heart inclines him to his right, but a fool's heart to his left." - Ecclesiastes 10)
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To: SJackson
The Temple Mount has been administered by the Muslim Wakf... Israel is responsible for security...

I am aware of this arrangement. It is not working. Whoever has the sovereignty of this are - and I feel it should be Israel - must be held responsible for preserving Jewish historical sites.
34 posted on 03/31/2005 1:15:17 PM PST by chukcha
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To: Diogenesis

HIDEOUS.

People really have no more realization of what it means to fall into the hands of an angry God Almighty.


35 posted on 03/31/2005 1:22:46 PM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. 2 TIM 3:5)
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To: BadAndy
No, I would have it removed, after I spattered the tattooers brains all over his turban.

Harsh? Maybe. Unnecessary? Not on your life.

36 posted on 03/31/2005 1:34:44 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (one nation. playing God. divided.)
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To: chukcha
I am aware of this arrangement. It is not working. Whoever has the sovereignty of this are - and I feel it should be Israel - must be held responsible for preserving Jewish historical sites.

I agree. Frankly if Jordan won't do it now that they've assumed control from the PA, Israel should assume complete control of the site.

37 posted on 03/31/2005 1:39:26 PM PST by SJackson (You simply have to accept the fact that we are all corrupt-Mahmud Abbas to senior UN official, 1996)
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To: BadAndy

lol.... Or "satan"


38 posted on 03/31/2005 1:48:07 PM PST by SavedAndForgiven
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To: SavedAndForgiven

...sickening and anger provoking. Islamists seek to take every holy site on the planet and make it theirs.


39 posted on 03/31/2005 6:17:34 PM PST by familyop (Essayons!)
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To: SavedAndForgiven
If the Israeli government is so upset by this, then why did it give the holiest site on earth to the moslems after capturing it in 1967???

It is all well and good to protest acts such as these. It is all well and good to insist on Jerusalem as Israel's "eternal and undivided capital." But what does it really amount to if none of the shouters is serious about rebuilding the Holy Temple?

Yehudah `Etziyyon is forbidden by law to even enter the Old City of Jerusalem. Why? Because he believes the Temple Mount should be Jewish, not moslem. What good does it do to make a big noise about what the moslems are doing if you never intend to take it from them?

On Ro'sh Chodesh Nisan a group called Revava will try to bring 10,000 Jews onto the Temple Mount. Do you suppose the people who are shouting over this desecration will support them? Don't hold your breath!

Meanwhile, while the moslems deny that there ever was a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, the self-anointed secular "leaders of the Jewish community" (and of Israel, too) can't bring themselves to dispute this because they've invested so much of their identity into rejecting the "chr*stian" Bible. It's against the law to deny the Holocaust happened. But it's an even greater crime against correct thinking to believe that anything in the Bible actually did happen!

40 posted on 03/31/2005 6:49:07 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Proud supporter, Voluntary HumanIST Extinction Movement!)
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