Posted on 11/06/2006 4:38:23 AM PST by Esther Ruth
Israeli Sheikh: Temple Mount is Entirely Islamic
11:48 Nov 06, '06 / 15 Cheshvan 5767
by Hillel Fendel
Responding to a plan to build a synagogue on Judaism's most sacred site, Sheikh Raad Salah warns that the entire complex is Moslem. Islam was founded 550 years after the Jewish Temple was destroyed.
Sheikh Raad Salah - head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, a Hamas supporter, and an outspoken enemy of Israel - warns that Israeli plans to build a synagogue on the Temple Mount could lead to violence and bloodshed. "The day will never come when a Moslem or an Arab will have the right to cede even one foot of the Al-Aqsa Mosque or of Jerusalem," the Sheikh's Al-Aqsa movement announced.
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was the site of the two Jewish Holy Temples, the first of which was built by King Solomon in the year 832 BCE, close to 1,500 years before Islam was founded. For most of the next 1,000 years, Holy Temples stood on the site, until the Romans conquered the entire land and destroyed the Second Temple. Though the area came under the control of the Romans, Byzantines, Moslems, Christians, Turks, British and others over the coming centuries, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount were always the focus of Jewish religious and national yearnings and continued to be the Jews' "capital in exile." In the Six Day War of 1967, the modern state of Israel liberated the Temple Mount area, placing all of Jerusalem under Jewish control once again after a hiatus of 1,900 years.
Israel, however, never actualized its sovereignty over the holy Temple Mount site, but rather granted the Moslem Waqf nearly total control. Jews, in fact, have not been allowed to pray there ever since then-Chief IDF Rabbi Shlomo Goren led a prayer service there on the first Tisha B'Av after the liberation.
As Arutz-7 reported nearly two months ago, MK Uri Ariel (National Union) is preparing a plan for the construction of a synagogue on the southeastern corner of the Temple Mount. The plan must be approved by the Jerusalem municipality's planning committee - an unlikely eventuality - and Ariel is set to meet with rabbis and public figures on the issue later this week.
MK Ariel notes that such a building would "rectify a historic injustice," and that every Supreme Court ruling on the issue has recognized the right of every Jew to pray on the Temple Mount.
"The synagogue will not interfere with believing Moslems who wish to pray at the Al-Aksa Mosque," Ariel said. "On the contrary, this is an opportunity for the Moslem world to demonstrate and prove that it is tolerant enough."
The "Moslem world" is not jumping at said opportunity. The announcement by Sheikh Salah's organization states, "We hereby warn aloud about the existence of a Jewish national consensus that is trying to build the Holy Temple at the expense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. We warn that similar plans were submitted to Ariel Sharon and Ehud Barak and their publication led to violence, the ramifications of which have not ended to this day."
"The timing of the publication [of this plan] is not coincidental," the Islamic Movement states, "and it jibes with the increased calls for expulsion [of Arabs], the implementation of the policy of religious persecution and national discrimination, and the giving of a green light to the construction of the Third Temple."
"We remind, for the 1,000th time, that the entire Al-Aqsa mosque, including all of its area and alleys above the ground and under it, is exclusive and absolute Moslem property, and no one else has any rights to even one grain of earth in it."
"We remind the Israeli establishment, which stands behind these plans, that the problem of Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem is not just a Palestinian problem, but a Palestinian, Arab and Islamic problem. The day the Al-Aqsa Mosque is harmed, Heaven forbid, all the Arab and Islamic nations will call to prevent this damage. Watch out! Beware of merely the thought of hurting or desecrating the mosque."
Published: 11:24 November 06, 2006 Last Update: 11:48 November 06, 2006
> could lead to violence and bloodshed
Would anyone notice, though?
I've always wondered why the Jews let the Shrine to Satan continue to stand...
Bulldoze the abomination.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque needs to be leveled and Jerusalem brought fully back into Israel, once and for all. God gave that land to the Jews over 2500 years ago...the Muslims have no claim except that which they have given themselves, by force. And if force is needed to remove them, then force is what should be used.
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I am sick of the Muslim LIES!!!!!
Jerusalem belonged to the Israelites before Mo ever hit the planet.
The Koran NEVER mentions Jerusalem- not ONCE! NOT ONCE!
They have NO claim....
I hear the Mosque's foundations were crumbling - there's a lot of soil in the runoff every time it rains on the Temple Mount. Has anyone else heard this?
"The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was the site of the two Jewish Holy Temples, the first of which was built by King Solomon in the year 832 BCE, close to 1,500 years before Islam was founded."
Why are the Muslims allowed within 50 miles of the Temple Mount?
And not doing anything will lead to violence and bloodshed. What is the point?
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If Jews would have been smart, they would have blown that mosque off that site during their first war with the Muslims.
The temple of solomon stood long before mad mo was a sperm cell in his pappa's nutsac. Its holy ground to jews and christians not muslims,period. Bulldoze the mount and rebuild the temple of solomon Israel.
Perhaps just God's way of getting rid of the animals.
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The less-violent solution is the sensible one in this case.
Israel should take control over ALL holy sites in their nation. Making it very clear that the religions of the world who honor these sites will have liberal access to them.
They may use the sites freely, but they are the property of the nation of Israel. NO other nation or religion can claim ownership of ANY of them.
And that they are allowed use of these sites ONLY so long as they behave themselves. This means:
NO violence
NO advocacy of violence
NO fights between religions
NO changes to holy sites without Israeli permission
This also gives the Israelis tremendous leverage. Say for example, if the Wahabbis who run al-Asqa misbehave, then Israel can turn over management of al-Asqa to the Sufis.
Even the threat of doing this would scare the Wahabbis silly.
But the bottom line must be to let everyone know that ALL HOLY SITES IN ISRAEL ARE OWNED BY ISRAEL. NO ONE ELSE MAY CLAIM OWNERSHIP OVER ANY HOLY SITE.
I have read many many versions of the Six Day War, but I do not recall any explanation for this fatal lapse in judgement on the part of the Israelis. There must have been much pressure on the Jews from the United States, among others, to make this happen. In retrospect, a huge mistake.
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