Israel - Violence erupts at Jerusalem holy site (Temple Mount)

Associated Press (excerpt) ^ | February 9, 2007 | Dalia Nammari

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Excerpt -

JERUSALEM - Hundreds of angry worshippers threw stones at police and scuffled with them on Friday in an eruption of outrage over contentious Israeli renovation work at a disputed holy site in Jerusalem's Old City.

About 200 police streamed on to the hilltop compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, to try to quell the violence, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Witnesses said police hurled stun grenades.

Several dozen protesters barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa mosque at the compound, which is Islam's third-holiest site. The Protesters are angry about Israeli repair work on an earthen ramp leading to the hilltop compound, which they fear will damage the mosque.

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[Slings and Arrows]

Witnesses said police hurled stun grenades.

Next time, spend a little extra cash and get frag grenades.

[Flavius]

Islam's third-holiest site

anyone knows which one is forth and fifth

just curios

[diverteach]

"Islam's third-holiest site

anyone knows which one is forth and fifth

just curios"

Seeing as though the Temple mount is holy because they say it's where mohammed tied up his horse and ascended to heaven for a night ride, the forth and fifth holiest place would be where he and the horse respectively last crapped.

[Alouette]

a disputed holy site

AP bias strikes again! It's not a "disputed holy site" you freaking retards, it's THE WESTERN WALL. The renovation is nowhere near "al aksa."

Zechariah 14, folks. Read it.

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[Dixie Yooper]

Several dozen protesters barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa mosque at the compound, which is Islam's third-holiest site

There's an old song from the 80's, "If I had a rocket launcher" that comes to mind with this news.

[Alouette]

anyone knows which one is forth and fifth

4. The Cathedral of Cordoba

5. Ground Zero in lower Manhattan

[philman_36]

...the Al-Aqsa mosque at the compound, which is Islam's third-holiest site.
Much like the labeling of cities as "refugee camps" I recall few articles by the AP where their little "third-holiest site" factoid isn't tossed out.
What usually seems to be missing, even when it's called the Temple Mount and recognized as having any significance to the Jewish people at all, is the factoid that it's "Judaism's holiest site".

Yeah, yeah, I'm nitpicking...Sue me!

[Convert from ECUSA]

A Jewish man at the Western wall hiccups and the religion of peeves riots. A camel breaks wind while walking near the dome of the crock and the religion of peeves riots. The religion of peeves riots because it has nothing better to do or to contribute to earthly civilization.

[Dixie Yooper]

anyone knows which one is forth and fifth

4. Paris, France 5. Detroit, Michigan

[philman_36]

Glad to see the responses here. Now if "refugee camp" could get as much recognition as the BS it is.

[familyop]

"Zechariah 14, folks. Read it."

The words in 14:9 are absolutely significant and special to me, thanks to generous, courageous, wise people who choose to teach, but infinitely ultimately, B"H.

[sgtbono2002]

These people didnt just happen to show up there. There is someone in the background co-ordinating these moves.

[colonialhk]

NY and Vegas

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The Islamic Mein Kampf

[livius]

Exactly. One of the other things that nobody ever discusses is the fact that Mohammed's hallucinations come thousands of years after the beginnings of Judaism and hundreds of years after Christianity. Mad Mo incorporated elements of both of them (a parody of Jewish ritual law and distorted references to various Christian figures) in his cult, and now Muslims are left trying to figure out a way to proclaim that they, Muslims, are actually the "original" holders of these trademarks.

A lot of what we are seeing with Muslims claiming the sites of other religions is an attempt to build up historical legitmacy for themselves. They don't have it and never will. They are a syncretist cult designed initially for the personal benefit of one man and his family and now for the benefit, primarily, of a few Arab families and a bunch of rag-tag "clergy."

[DieHard the Hunter]

Perhaps the Israeli government, in a move toward Social responsibility and International World Peach, should bring a few tonnes of hi-explosive to the Temple Mount, install it properly, and level it. Flat. Blow it to smithereens. Then do it again a few times, until the rubble jumps, until there is only a Temple Crater. Then, pave the whole lot with concrete, and turn it into downtown parking.

Nobody wins, nobody loses, everybody gets to park for free.

A similar approach could be used with Mecca and Medina.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Sounds like there United Again and i think we gave Fatah money

[newcthem]

According to the MSM, practically any pile of sh*t qualifies as a sand-maggot holy site.

[agrace]

Fox news radio - same bent this morning. Not a single mention of a place called the Temple Mount, but rather the lead in was "violence erupts at a site holy to Muslims and Jews...dozens of worshippers (no mention of which kind) threw rocks" etc, wrapping up the report by calling the location "Islam's sacred mosque."

Amazing they can throw a fit about repair work 60 YARDS away. Convenient excuse alert. Speaking of the Temple Mount, related article -

Archeologist: Ancient cistern proves location of Second Temple