Posted on 09/17/2015 4:48:20 AM PDT by SJackson
As violence rages on Temple Mount and throughout Jerusalem, international leaders demand Israel maintain restrictions.
International leaders have called on Israel to continue a ban on Jewish worship on the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site, in order to maintain calm and placate Muslim extremists who have been rioting for three days straight in Jerusalem.
UN coordinator Nickolay Mladenov warned during a Security Council meeting Tuesday that clashes between Palestinian rioters and Israeli security forces could provoke violence by Muslims elsewhere in the Middle East.
"As the Middle East faces a vicious tide of terror and extremism, such serious provocations have the potential to ignite violence well beyond the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem," Mladenov said.
The envoy called for "restraint" and said it was "imperative that the historic status quo is preserved" - namely allowing limited access to Jews to visit, but not pray, at the site.
On Tuesday, clashes at the site spread to Jerusalem's Old City, including an attack by Palestinian terrorists which killed an Israel motorist.
The site of two Jewish temples, the Temple Mount today houses a sprawling Islamic complex built on their ruins, known to Muslims as "Al-Aqsa." Under Israel's peace treaty with Jordan, the Jordanian-run Waqf Islamic trust administers the site, and only Muslims are allowed to conduct any forms of worship.
Jewish groups have been challenging the restrictions to Jewish access in particular in recent years - which also include limits on the numbers of Jews who can visit each day, at certain hours only.
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And that's one more reason why they shouldn't stop.
The audacity of religious persecution and repression.
Any calls on Islamofascists to stop rioting and assaulting people?
Of course not, that’s just what they do. We send them $ to teach it in the schools.
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