As expected.
The Religion of Peace modus operendi.
"Around the world, Muslims declared a universal "day of anger..." "
Every frickin day is a universal day of anger for muslims. How can you tell the differnce?
"Day of Anger"? Let me guess. It ends in y.
They should declare a "day of acting like a normal member of the human race" if they want to try something novel that might get someone's attention.
Ya can't even repair a sidewalk without these lunatics going off. Cheap theatrics works only on leftist journalists. No wonder these people are impoverished!
Yes, the FAKE gold dome. FAKE, like so many other aspects of this religion.
The "prophet" Mohammed didn't journey to heaven. He went
the other way.
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Palestinian Authority's president Mahmud Abbas (R), and exiled leader of the ruling Hamas party Khaled Meshaal (C) perform Umrah, a minor pilgrimage to Mecca. Rival Palestinian factions signed a historic deal to form a national unity government after marathon talks.
"Around the world, Muslims declared a universal 'day of anger,'..."
And that differs from every other day how???
The religion of peeves declares a universal "day of anger"..........The religion of peeves has had a "day of universal anger" for the past 1300 years, ever since Mo'med's camel got heartburn from the local greasy spoon outside Mecca.
The Newest Assault on Jerusalem
by Dore Gold
Posted: 02/09/2007
Radical Palestinian Muslims today assaulted the Western Wall plaza in Jersualem with rocks and bottles, forcing Israeli security forces to to clear out and close down the holiest religious site in the Jewish faith and then storm the Temple Mount compound above from where the attack was launched. Why has this area suddenly become a tinderbox of inter-religious strife?
Ostensibly, the riots in Jerusalem are supposed to be in reaction to Israel's attempts to re-build a damaged access ramp to the western side of the Temple Mount. Before any construction project can be approved, it must be inspected by the Israel Antiquities Authority to make sure that no valuable archaeological artifacts are being destroyed or covered up. In reality, the latest eruption is part of a larger campaign by radical Muslim groups to place all of Jerusalem under Islamic control.
Since Israel re-united Jerusalem nearly 40 years ago in the 1967 Six Day War, its governments have agreed to allow the Muslim shrines on the Temple Mount -- the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock -- to remain under Islamic religious administration, even though the territory in now under Israeli national sovereignty. During the period that Yasser Arafat ruled the Palestinian Authority, he sought to infiltrate that Islamic adminstration with more radical figures, who clearly have left their mark.
A number of radical movements have infiltrated the compound in recent years as a result. In my new book, The Fight for Jerusalem, I have a photograph of one such movement, Hizb ut-Tahrir, which held a demonstration on the Temple Mount in 2006 with a huge banner calling for the establishment of a new global caliphate. Its members were involved in an attack on the Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmad Maher, when he came to the al-Aqsa mosque for prayers several years ago. They also made threatening moves in the direction of First Lady Laura Bush, before security men pulled her away during her visit to the Temple Mount. Western analysts regard the group as an al-Qaeda precursor, which does not violate the law, but nonetheless prepares individuals ideologically and then passes them off to other organizations for military action.
An Israeli radical sheikh named Raad Salah, who has served a prison term, has been at the heart of much of the trouble on the Temple Mount. He was present during the latest riots last week until an Israeli Courts ordered him to stay away from the area of controversy. Salah calls for the establishment of a new worldwide caliphate based in Jerusalem and he has been behind projects to bring holy water from the Zamzam spring in Mecca to Jerusalem , in order to elevate the city's religious importance to Muslims (something which the Saudis, as protectors of Mecca, should oppose). His men have provided the manpower to destroy Temple Mount antiquities and build new subterranean mosques inside the Temple Mount area. Salah has been connected to leading figures in the Muslim Brotherhood abroad as well as with leaders of the Hamas movement.
All these radical movements are aware of a growing belief in certain Middle Eastern circles that Jerusalem plays a key role in radical Islamic "end of times" literature. The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been fueling some of this speculation with his talk about the imminent arrival of the Mahdi, an Islamic messianic figure in both Shiite and Sunni Islam. Radical movements in the Middle East are seeking to play on these sentiments and beliefs in choosing to stage a crisis in Jerusalem at this time.
The Iranians also have an interest in backing a crisis in Jerusalem. Iran hopes to divert attention away its their steady infiltration into Iraq with Revolutionary Guards and advanced weaponry for the insurgency by getting the world to focus on Israel at this time. Currently there are two interpretations about the root causes of instability in the Middle East. Those aware of what is going on in Iraq, as well as in Lebanon, and in the Persian Gulf understand that Iran's drive for regional hegemony is the main factor threatening the Middle East at this time. Alternatively there are voices that play down Iran and still harp on the Arab-Israeli conflict as one of the the main problems (eg, the Iraq Study Group). Iran is seeking to get the world to focus on Israel and the Palestinians, alone.
The attack on the Western Wall today illustrates once again the dangers of ever letting Jerusalem fall into the hands of radical Islamic groups, like Hamas. Since 1998, when the Buddhist statues in the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan were first attacked, an "evil wind" has been blowing across the Middle East and South Asia , stripping holy sites of the immunity they have enjoyed in the past. Shiite Mosques in Iraq and Pakistan have been blown up, Joseph's Tomb in the West bank was set on fire by Palestianian mobs, the Church of the Nativity was invaded by a joint Hamas-Fatah unit.
By Friday sundown. Israel stabilized the situation on the Temple Mount. Since 1967, it has been determined to protect Jerusalem , while respecting autonomy of its various churches and Islamic religious bodies. Radical Islamic groups have exploited Israel's policies on the Temple Mount. Nonetheless, it is now clearer than ever that only a free and democratic Israel can ultimately protect the access of all faiths to the Holy City and prevent it from becoming the tinder box that others hope to create.
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Dr. Gold is President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affiars, former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, and author of the New York Times Bestseller "Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism" and "Tower of Babble"(Regnery).
...strutted?....STRUTTED?...
The writer couldn't have said "walked"? or "strode"? "sashayed"? "ambled"?
No, he "STRUTTED" into the Muslim grounds.
Time Magazine - certainly no bias here, is there?
Nowhere else in the world outside of embassies, does any religion or other nation have a claim on property that transcends the owning nation.
For this reason, Israel should "nationalize" all holy sites.
This does not mean running roughshod over religious rights, just recognizing that all parts of Israel are parts of Israel, and will remain so.
While from that moment on, the government of Israel may allow free and fair use of such holy sites, they are no longer the property of anyone but the nation of Israel.
This also means that any other nation or religion has to have Israeli permission to operate or maintain any holy site. Furthermore, such sites are unsuitable for residences, so holy persons can live in conventional housing and just work at the hold sites.
Israel should also insist on good behavior on the part of those it allows to use its holy sites. If, for example, the Wahabbis in charge of the Asqa mosque, or their pilgrims, misbehave, the Israeli government may be inclined to reward the management of the mosque to a Sufi Muslim organization.
Even the suggestion of this would profoundly terrify the Wahabbis, who would thereafter be on their best behavior, and insist on it from their pilgrims.
The same rules should apply to the petty squabbles of the various Christian sects at their holy sites.
The Israelis could be as kind as they wanted, and very liberal in their terms of use and maintenance; unlike the Saudis, and Muslim countries. But the Israelis must be firm: The al-Asqa, and all other mosques, churches and holy sites are the property of the nation of Israel.
Some additional links giving background on deliberate Arab "disinformation". First link has pictures of the actual ramp; second link has many pictures of the actual riot. (Note also that there has been a riot in Egypt as well over this--coincidence or staged riots, I'll let you guess which.)
http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/eng_n/html/mugrabim.htm
http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/655-Selective-Outrage-Syndrome,-Day-OF-RAGE!.html
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"Muslims declared a universal 'day of anger,'",
I just declared a day of "I don't give a damn"!
Its a holy site to Christians, too.
Al Aqsa mosque is built square atop Mt Moriah and the huge rock said to be the site where Abraham was asked by God to offer his son Issac in sacrifice.
Christians ought to be vocal in their offense at being forbidden open access to this site.
Solomons temple was completed in 825 BCE. Al Aqsa mosque was built about 1400 years later.
Israelis must know the famous American proverb: When you're up to your ass in alligators it's hard to drain the swamp.
Flatten the damn thing.