Posted on 12/31/2015 5:32:31 AM PST by SJackson
Orthodox and Conservative Jews pray every day for rebuilding the Holy Temple. The radical Islamic agenda calls that "incitement."
From the Muslim point of view, millions of Jews are inciting Mohammed’s followers by praying every day that the Holy Temple be rebuilt.
Arab media have made it a daily ritual, almost a prayer, to charge that the Israeli government and Jews visiting the Temple Mount are really plotting to rebuild the destroyed Temple.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has taken a tough stand against Jews who even try to utter a prayer on the Temple Mount, which boils the blood of Muslims who respond with violence, which nevertheless their clerics preach from Temple Mount mosques.
Perhaps the Obama administration is not aware of it, but millions of Jews, including those from the Conservative stream of Judaism, pray every day for rebuilding the Temple.
Arab media occasionally refer to the prayers as proof of the “plot†to destroy the Al Aqsa mosque by archaeological excavations that supposedly are carried out in order to weaken the mosque’s foundations and cause the mosque to collapse, if radical Islamic sacrilege don’t beat them to the punch and bring down the house on themselves
The next step, according to the Arab paranoia, is a construction crew entering and building the Third Temple.
Neither the Palestinian Authority nor Jordan, which is the formal “custodian†of the Temple Mount, has stated that worldwide Jewish prayers are incitement, but it may be just a matter of time.
American-Israeli journalist Maayan Jaffe wrote this week for JNS:
[Is] the current Palestinian uprising is solely political?
Not so, says Adnan Abu Amer, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the National University for Open Education. From his perspective, some worrying trends indicate, ‘we are regressing into a religious war….
‘We are seeing a politicization of religious values – people using religion for political purposes. This is dangerous.’
She also quoted Ofer Zalzberg, senior analyst with the Middle East Program of the International Crisis Group, as noting that “one-fifth of the Likud membership is national religious†and that Jews following “a Messianic, Temple-focused Judaism†believe they are fighting a “holy war.â€
Zalzberg stated, “On both sides, eschatological beliefs are being misunderstood, abused and misused†and express concerns about the links between religious and violence.â€
He told Jaffe:
What is the link between religion and violence? One is about things that because of your religious beliefs you want or even need them and therefore you would fight for them, use violence, to secure them….
The other is that you have needs or goals that are in fact not driven by religion, but for different reasons, religious leaders use religious discourse to grant them legitimacy. This is part of the dynamics we are seeing in the current escalation of the conflict.
Now that the Israeli government has more or less crushed the idea of Jews praying on the Temple Mount, radical Islamic leaders, whose existence is dependent on violence, may have to turn to universal Jewish prayer to drive their followers into a frenzy.
The traditional Jewish prayers in the morning service are preceded by reciting Biblical and Talmudic passages about sacrifices, and conclude with the prayer that may it be God’s will that “the Temple should be built speedily in our days.â€
If that is not enough to rankle radical Muslims, Jews recite three times a day in the silent “Amidah†prayer:
Return in mercy to Jerusalem Your city and dwell therein as You have promised; speedily establish therein the throne of David Your servant, and rebuild it, soon in our days, as an everlasting edifice. Blessed are You L-rd, who rebuilds Jerusalem…..
Look with favor, L-rd our G‑d, on Your people Israel and pay heed to their prayer; restore the service to Your Sanctuary and accept with love and favor Israel’s fire-offerings and prayer; and may the service of Your people Israel always find favor.
Given the State Dept.’s general ignorance of the Middle East and of Judaism, it is conceivable that some of the “experts†in Foggy Bottom might pen some advice that Jews should change their prayer in order not to incite Muslims.
None of this should be considered tongue-in-cheek. Muslims take Jewish prayer very seriously. That is why they are go ballistic when a Jew prays on the Temple Mount. They are afraid that God might hear their prayers.
They do not understand that despite their loudspeakers, God hears the prayers of those who beseech Him in truth.
According to radical Islam, that is incitement.
F**k em. Happy New Year!!!
Stop the plotting and rebuild it already. What are the Mohammadans gonna do ? Get more mad at civilization ? Wage more jihad ? It’s time to decapitate this evil once and for all.
Short, sweet, and to the point. I like it. Happy New Year to you too.
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The prayers being only a few thousand years old, they should certainly be changed if they offend Muslims
The breathing of Jews or any other Infidels is inciting to Moslems.
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Actually, I thought the Alter for the Temple has already been built and is waiting to be moved to the Temple when the time comes.
“May it be Your will, L-rd our G-d and G-d of our fathers, that the Bet Hamikdash be speedily rebuilt in our days, and grant us our portion in Your Torah.”
Knock down that Dome of The Crock (of Shi’ite) and the Al Aqsa Mosque and just build the Third Temple!
This why the “liberals” don’t like Israel. They dare to be Jews. They dare to proudly wear an identity, and a religious one as much as a national one. They dare to protect their borders. “Liberals” love identity politics, but this is the kind of identity politics that “liberals” loath. It certainly is anti-Semitism.
When I was in Jerusalem, five years ago, we were permitted to ascend the Temple Mount, but we were not permitted to take any religious impliments or symbols, other than Islamic ones, and we warned not to pray.
One of the members of our group had his prayer shawl with him for praying at the Wailing Wall. It was taken from him when we went up the Temple Mount, and he never got it back.
I felt bad for him, because prayer shawls (tallitim) are items that we tend to have for decades, and get attached to. I kept the one that was given to me at my Bar Mitzvah for decades, and when it went missing, I felt pretty bad. My wife bought me one to wear at our wedding twelve years ago, and I still have it.
I also was angry that the Israeli government has tried to appease those barbarians who refuse to be appeased.
They could have knocked the mosque down during the ‘48 war. They did not. That was short sighted.
Happy New Year. I am not Jewish but I pray for the rebuilding of the Temple, destruction of the Al Aqsa Mosque and the reconsecration of Hagia Sophia.
I know what prayer offering I will make on Saturday at Fatima Rosary!
Praying - even more incitement than rogue videos....
And if we infidels were all gone, moslems, who unbeknownst to themselves, are under the spell of the evil one, would just continue to kill each other. Of course, since everyone is made in the image of God (imago Dei), EVERYONE is an affront to the evil one and he MUST destroy each one.
The Good News is that, unfortunately for him, God has other plans! Thousands of moslems and others, are coming to the Lord, even as ‘Christendom’ turns its back on Jesus. May the remnant in ‘Christendom’ gird itself for the ever rising spiritual battle and spread the Word, especially amongst a badly ‘Osteenified’ society that has lost sight of Jesus.
They also dislike Jews because in their ignorance they see then as western white people occupying the land of indigenous peoples of color.
“rebuild the destroyed Temple.”
rebuild = was already built and there first
destroyed = someone else wrecked it!
Their own asinine statements help to prove the Hebrews were
there FIRST! We will continue to pray for G-d to bring about the REbuilding of the Temple!
Well was not going to say it quite like that but it works!
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