HolyCoast: Religion of Peace Stones Christians on Temple Mount
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Monday, February 20, 2012

Religion of Peace Stones Christians on Temple Mount

And you thought they just hated Jews:
A mob of some 50 Palestinian Muslims stoned a group of Christian tourists atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount on Sunday morning. Three of the Israeli police officers who acted to protect the Christian group were wounded by the stone-throwers.

Police arrested 11 Palestinians, several of them minors, for their role in the attack.
The attack is believed to have been instigated by the former Muslim mufti of Jerusalem, Ekrama Sabri, who told Palestinian media over the weekend that Jewish groups were planning to break into the mosques that occupy the holy compound and desecrate them.

Sabri urged all local Muslims to protect the mosques from "the Israeli conspiracy against the city and its holy places."

Muslim religious figures regularly claim that Israel is plotting to destroy the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque to pave the way for the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple, which the Muslims now insist never previously existed.

Because of the constant threat of Muslim violence, and despite the fact that the Temple Mount is the most holy place on earth to Jews and many Christians, the Israeli police comply with Muslim demands for harsh restrictions on non-Muslim visitors to the site. For instance, Jews and Christians are forbidden to carry Bibles atop the Temple Mount or to utter even silent prayers within its walls. Jews and Christians are regularly detained for violating these conditions.
How do you ban silent prayer? And doesn't the existence of the ancient temple's Western Wall sort of kill the Muslim theory that the Jewish temple never existed?

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

2 comments:

Eric said...

Leaving for Israel in just a couple weeks. Should be interesting. Let's see if I can cause any international incidents.

Nightingale said...

Might want to bring a helmet Eric. I hear those so-called "stones" are more like big rocks.