Posted on 09/24/2003 11:53:24 PM PDT by SchrödingersCat
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030924/2003092415.html
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The Islamic al-Awqaf department in Jerusalem have accused the Israeli authorities of being behind the collapse of an internal wall in al-Aqsa mosque yesterday after it had prevented its engineers form maintaining it.
The collapsed wall is situated near the Islamic museum on a hill in old Jerusalem where the mosque is situated. This wall is considered new in comparison to other parts of the mosque.
The director of the Islamic Awqaf in Jerusalem Adnan al-Husseini said that the wall collapsed as a result of "the Israeli intervention in our work and preventing us from maintaining it after we stated it was in an urgent need for a rapid action to prevent its collapse."
(Excerpt) Read more at arabicnews.com ...
A WALL OF AL-AQSA MOSQUE IN DANGER OF COLLAPSE
Palestinians refuse to cooperate with Israel to prevent collapse of Temple Mount retaining wall
(Article by Khaled Abu-Toameh, Iton Yerushalayim, 17.8.2001, p. 18) [Translated by Israel Government Press Office
Israel fears that Temple Mount retaining wall will collapse and region will burn. The problem: Aerial photographs of Temple Mount have proven that al-Aqsa Mosque's southern wall is inclined to one side. The reasons: Wear-and-tear over time, ground shifting and renovations being carried out by Waqf. The proposal: Israel proposed to assist in renovating wall but Waqf has yet to respond. Waqf: "If wall collapses, there will be general war." The municipality: "We are helpless."
Experts from Israel and other countries around the world have recently determined that one of Al-Aqsa Mosque's retaining walls is in danger of collapse. They claim that if renovations are not carried out immediately at the site, the wall is liable to collapse. Such an event, if it happens, has a vast potential for destruction and would even be liable - beyond direct losses to life that would be caused by a collapse - to ignite the Middle East. The Arab world would likely claim that the wall's collapse was the result of a religious-Israeli plot to destroy the mosques on the Temple Mount and build the Third Temple in their place.
See rest at: http://www.chretiens-et-juifs.org/article.php?voir%5B%5D=540&voir%5B%5D=6556
Inasmuch as these morons destroyed a large amount of World History when they excavated Solomon's Stables with bulldozers, I am not sympathetic to their plight.
PS: How do you post an image on these posts.
PPS: Have you ever seen a collective shot of them praying at the Al-Asqa Mosque, where on command thousands of Arabs squat all at once and their asses collectively all at once shoot up into the air? 5000 behinds squating upward while their faces hug the rugs. Just as someone says Allahu Akbar. Were I the deity, that would not be a pretty site.
Looks like they are collectively mooning the Creator. I suppose it depends on your point of view.
Or bending over for him. They like it that way. Then again, Muhammed seemed to prefer little girls.
How does this guy maintain a constant three day growth? Never a beard, never clean shaven.
Outside of feminizing hormone treatments, I cannot see how he arrests beard growth.
Whether or not this has any bearing on the present is for the reader to decide; but this is a picture of Arafat's Uncle in the Balkans during WWII. Chatting with the Troops apparently.
One thing is for sure. If Arafat had used German Engineers, the Al-Aqsa wall would not have collapsed.
Author of the famous battle cry:
"Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you."
-- Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Hussaini, Berlin, Germany, March 1, 1944
Yet another great hero of the noble Palestinian people.
Must be Allah's Will.
Incoming private reply...
That is, the site of the ancient temple, in Arabic, Al Charim, "The Holy." It is enclosed on all four sides with a high wall and buildings; and the southern and eastern parts of this enclosure form, at the same time, the city wall in these directions. The western part is the well-known and revered fragment of the wall of the holy temple mount, and is named the Kothel Hama'arabi, i. e. the west wall. It is sixty feet in height, and has twenty-three rows of stone. The nine lower rows consist of large stones, three to four cubits long, and two cubits broad and high. The upper fourteen rows, however, consist of smaller stones; and hence it would appear that this upper part belongs to a later period, and was perhaps built by Caliph Omar. It is also called "the mourning wall," since thousands of Israelites constantly deplore there and weep for the fall of Jerusalem. It is touching to see how every Jew bends his head, moaning and reverentially, at the foot of this holy wall, and lifts up his tearful eyes to heaven, and exclaims, sobbing, "How long yet, O Lord!" This spot is visited by travellers of all nations; and no one can ever quit the place unmoved, and with indifference. It is no vain fancy! I have indeed often seen there non-Israelitish travellers melt into tears. No one can describe the feelings experienced on this sacred spot. One paints to himself in spirit the former exalted state of the Israelitish people in the highest degree, and then feels suddenly that it is sunk into the dust and robbed of its glory; but his imagination places again before him the future exaltation--he feels himself inspired, and exclaims, "Surely this is the gate of heaven!" (Gen. 28:17.) This wall is visited by all our brothers on every feast and festival; and the large space at its foot is often so densely filled up, that all cannot perform their devotions here at the same time. It is also visited, though by less numbers, on every Friday afternoon, and by some nearly every day. No one is molested in these visits by the Mahomedans, as we have a very old firman from the Sultan of Constantinople that the approach shall not be denied to us, though the Porte obtains for this privilege an especial tax, which is, however, quite insignificant.
A bit off topic, but this reminds me of something:
Revelation 6:9-14
6 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
It's a given that the arabs will blame the jews and the demonrats will blame Bush.
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