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To: Former Fetus
The Dome was built as a tourist site around 650 AD to keep the Caliph's court happy - after he moved from his palace in Amon.

When the court got restless, they returned to Amon, leaving the Dome and Jerusalem abandoned until much later when some Imam decided that the mosque Muhammad ascended to heaven from (”the far mosque”) had to be in Jerusalem, even though Mohammad was long dead before the Dome was built, and in any case, everyone long had agreed (the imam's decision not withstanding) that “the far mosque” was in Mecca - where Mohammad met his assassins. The farce continues ...

27 posted on 04/01/2014 4:01:21 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

There is such division in Islam—they may blow it up themselves. Maybe it could just “catch on Fire” an accident of some sort.


44 posted on 04/01/2014 7:57:33 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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