AL AQSA COLLAPSE! OMEN OR NOT!

ArabicNews.com ^ | 9/24/2003 | None given

[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."

[SchrödingersCat]

A rather ominous thing before Rosh Hashanna. Any comments?!

[Someone else here made a passing note about this. No one really took up on it. So I report a fuller report.]

[goldstategop]

Its all the Jews' fault!

[Jeff Chandler]

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

Impossible. Everybody knows that Bush is to blame (another one of his misleading failures)

[SchrödingersCat]

"Its all the Jews' fault!"

I posted the article and before I could read it myself on the News section,you posted a blame the Jews response. All in under one minute.

Check the time, people. UNDER ONE MINUTE!

Your response time in blaming the Jews is amazing. Have you considered career opportunities at Al-Jazeera or the BBC?

Though the BBC, being of a high journalistic standard, may require you to reduce that response time to 30 seconds. Go for it.

[LisaAnne]

I think he was being sarcastic.

[Green Knight]

*coughSARCASMcough*

[SchrödingersCat]

I think he was being sarcastic.

So was I?

[goldstategop]

I'm not blaming Jews. I was being sarcastic. I should have said as much. Don't assume I see Jews as being responsible; after all I'm a Jew myself. I'm trying to get across the point people blame every evil under the sun on Jews and that's not true. There are people who should work for Al Jazeera and perhaps the Beep but I'm not one of them. Yes, anti-Semites will blame the Jews. Its a habit as old as the human race. And its one that's not going to disappear from the world any time soon.

[goldstategop]

Yes, I was being SARCASTIC. You know its my way of being a straight shooter and back slapping idiots too quick to come to a hasty judgment about Jews. There's a lot of anti-Semitism in the Muslim and Arab world and that's the unthinking habit that's bred into these people. It never occurs to them Israel for once might NOT be guilty of any wrong doing. Just try enlightening them. They don't think over there like we do in the West about these matters.

[SchrödingersCat]

I'm not blaming Jews. I was being sarcastic.

I knew you were sarcastic. It was just your turn around time that impressed me. I posted it at 11:53 PDT and then went back to My Comments; then I re-entered the forum, only to see that within 1 minute, by 11:54, someone, whether literally or sarcastically, had blamed the Jews.

You really do have a future as a BBC MidEast correspondent.

[Squantos]

Maybe they should look and see if any airplanes flew into it. Lots of that going around these days. BTW Loved yer book !.......

Stay Safe SchrödingersCat

[goldstategop]

Now you're being sarcastic! ;-) Anyways, you're faster at checking your thread than I am at putting up posts and I won't brag to having established the all-time speed posting record here on FR!

[SchrödingersCat]

The real question remains. Was the collapse an omen?

Note: It was first reported in Israeli and Western Presses that it was the Islamic Museum Wall. Interestingly, the Arab press says it was the Al-Asqa Mosque wall. Do the structures share a wall or are the Arabs lying to exaggerate the claim?

Let's see if we can get the response time to this in under one minute, too. Eyes and ears, people. I will be checking.

[goldstategop]

I don't know. But anything happening on Temple Mount close to the birthday of the world would have a supernatural connotation to it. I guess we'll find out over the coming weeks and months what this all means.

[alexandria]

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."

The ease that these people lie with is incredible! I very disticntly heard about a year ago that Jewish archeologists and other Jewish groups that are involved with the Temple Mount were begging the Muslims to let them examine the damage that they knew was occuring before it was too late. The MUSLIMS were the ones who refused to even let them get near close enough to assess the structural damage, much less even speak of them fixing it. The lies just roll off their tounge.

[SchrödingersCat]

Not a bad answer, but your turn around time was a horrible 3 minutes. You may have to settle for a post with the New York Times.

[DeuceTraveler]

I read a few years ago how Jewish engineers were warning the Palestinians that one of the walls on a holy site was in danger of collapsing. They complained they were being ignored by the Palestinians. I wonder if this is the same wall.

[goldstategop]

LOL!!! Are you like Momo in Michael Ende's novel about people who play around with time? Yeah, I'm a slouch when it comes to setting posting records.

[goldstategop]

Who knows. And liberals tell us the people of the Religion Of Peace are not judgmental. Go figure.