MORE PHONY BALONEY TO QUICKEN SPIRIT OF JIHAD!
Supplement to November 20, 2005 BLOG
January 3, 2005
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Please scan back through our BLOG ARCHIVES to November 20, 2005 and read the BLOG titled “How Would Islam react if the Walls Fell Under the Al-Aksa Mosque?”
The Clerics of Islam in the Middle East have gone passed exaggeration in their efforts to convince the Muslim world that Israel is defaming the third most holy site of Islam, which consists of the Muslim constructions on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, namely the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aksa Mosque.
An actu
al case of genuine desecration of either of these sites by Israel, that could be legitimately proven, would indeed be the most effective method of uniting all the Islamic nations, as well as all Muslims around the world, to begin a holy Jihad against Israel.
However, the following article from the Jerusalem Post, concerning the claims of Shikh Ra’ad Salah, is not only phony baloney, it is an out and out lie by exaggeration, and he knows
it.
What he is probably referring to is the large underground model of the temple of Herod in the Rabbi’s Tunnel, which is about 106 yards to the west of the Dome of the Rock. I have been to this model m any times and assure you it is not under the Temple Mount, nor does it, in
any way, pose any danger to any of the Muslim structures on it.
The synagogue to which he is referring probably refers to one or some of the cemented entrances that have been made into small shrines where the Jews sometimes pray, but the last of those tunnels that led under the Temple Mount, which was still open during Jordanian occupation, was cemented shortly after the Jews recaptured the Temple Mount in 1967, and none of them have
been unsealed by the Jews since that time.
However, whatever he thinks this temple model and synagogue is, let me assure you that neither is located under the Temple Mount of Herod, and pose no danger to the Dome of the Rock or the Al Aksa Mosque.
Ironically, the only danger posed to the Al Aksa Mosque is construction by Muslim authorities in Solomon’s underground stables beneath and to the east of it. They have weakened the supporting walls and strata beneath it close to the point of collapse, and the next moderate quake in Jerusalem may well cause it to
collapse.
The JPost.com St aff
article from the Jerusalem Post, which follows, is yet another attempt, in a continuing effort by the clerics of Islam, to quicken a spirit of Jihad in the hearts of Muslims around the world.
BEGIN JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE
Israel Denies Temple Mount Excavation
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
January 3, 2006
The Israel Antiquities Authority denied on Tuesday accusations that archeological excavations were currently underway below the Temple Mount and that a synagogue had opened at the site.
Israel Antiquities Authority Jerusalem District Archaeologist Yuval Baruch said that all of the gates to the Temple Mount compound had been blocked by massive construction in historical times.
“The only gates open today are the official ones – they are open to Muslim worshippers and visitors – and they are under the control of security officials and Waqf representatives,” Baruch stated.
Sheikh Ra’ad Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement’s northern faction, had said at a press conference earlier Tuesday that al-Aksa Mosque was in danger, and declared that if archeological excavations in the vicinity of the Western Wall tunnels were to continue, Israel “would find itself at war with the entire Muslim world.”
He said that Israel was building a synagogue and a large model of the Second Temple at the excavation site, which is 97 meters away from the Dome of the Rock.
At the press conference, Salah screened a video that supposedly showed Jews praying at the illicit synagogue.
END JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE