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.
And the 5 times daily Islamic prayer to kill Jews is what now?
Nothing. But perhaps if every time a Muslim did something to offend Jewish sensibilities the Jews would collectively run around screeching like a truckload of chimpanzees with their asses on fire, they might draw some attention to the outrages that the Muslims commit against them on a daily basis.
Muck fuslims.
The Islamic War that has continued for 1400 years + or - will continue until no one is Moslem or until all are Moslem. If the second then the Intra Islamic War will continue from thence until there are no more Moslems.
I must incite them also, by praying for the restoration of all things: His temple, His calendar, His full book.
The Jews should do a Joshua and walk around the Temple Mount for 6 days and on the 7th 7 times. :)
Sometimes I pray towards Jerusalem and imagine our Messiah as King. Sweet, sweet, peace. JOY TO THE WORLD!
Oh, fook them with a rusty, running chainsaw! Jews have been praying for the rebuilding of the Temple since the Romans destroyed it in 70 C.E., EXACTLY 500 years before that child-molesting, murdering, thieving brigand that they worship as "the ideal man" was even born.
You want incitement? Here's incitement: cutting off a person's head because they don't think the same way as you do; setting off a bomb in the middle of a crowd because because you think that its your assurance of getting into a heavenly whore-house; driving planes into buildings full of people for the same reason; slicing up non-Moslem women's faces for the "crime" of holding hands with a man; etc., etc., etc. Now THAT is incitement.
Once again, FOOK THEM! Islam Delenda Est!!!
The existence of anyone who isn’t Muslim is “incitement.”
Gotcher incitement right here. .l.. ..l.
Really, they should be praying for the rebuilding of the Bet Hamikdash, too.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/28575/allah-is-a-zionist
In fairness, Joshua was covering up the sound of the sapers working to undermine the wall.
But, it’s an idea. . . . .
but archaeologists are working there now. :)
wow, can’t even find anything about this though. I research everything, got a link? :)
“They could have knocked the mosque down during the ‘48 war. They did not. That was short sighted.”
Agreed. If the Israelis had blown it up, what would the arabs have done, declare war? They also missed a chance in 1967.
I normally hate the destruction of historic sites, but in this particular case I would gladly light the fuse.
No worries. G-d will take care of it all in His own good time.
Well we can’t incite Muslims. Guess we have to ban Judaism.
Sorry Jews.
The Muslims are likely to take out their own religious building with one of their own missiles intended for Jews. Of course they will have to blame it on the Jews. It would be a divine miss lob.
Sorry, this is one of the prayers after every meal. So “the incitement” is being caused at least three times per day by every Jew.
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