No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you aren't informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
Posted on 02/17/2005 2:18:23 PM PST by dianaA
Jews and Christian are allowed to ascend the Temple Mount, usually through organized tours and only if they conform first to a strict set of guidelines, which includes demands that they not pray or bring any "holy objects" to the site. Visitors are banned from entering any of the mosques without direct Wafq permission.
"You also can't bring anything with Hebrew letters, even secular Hebrew books. The Wafq confiscated many of my tour books. One time a guy pulled out the Hebrew edition of the [Jerusalem] Post, and they took that from him."
Christians on the tour tried to enter the mosque, but rejoined the group minutes later saying a Palestinian in worship garb slammed the doors and told them to go away.
Kupietsky took out a picture book to show the disappointed Christians images of the interior sections of the mosque, but a Palestinian cleric who had been watching the tour demanded Israeli police confiscate the book, assuming it contained prayers. A scuffle ensued between the police, the cleric and Kupietsky, but it was finally determined the book contained no Hebrew lettering.
Jewish and Christian archeologists charge the Wafq during the excavation disposed truckloads of dirt containing Jewish artifacts from the Temple period. After the media reported this, Israeli authorities froze the construction permit given to the Wafq. The remainder of the dirt now sits in a small garden outside the Al Aqsa Mosque.
The Temple Mount area is very well-maintained and the grounds expertly landscaped, with the exception of the garden housing the dirt that may contain Jewish artifacts – that area is littered with garbage.
Visitors were finally taken to a second entrance area to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and were brought through a Muslim quarter back to the Western Wall, where all prayer is legal.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 17, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Judaism considers it the holiest place on earth. Muslims say it's the third holiest. Christianity reveres the spot as being of great historic importance. But if someone prays there, if he or she is not Muslim, the worshiper will be immediately arrested. Welcome to the Temple Mount.
The Temple Mount is the large area directly behind the Western Wall in Jerusalem. It is the site of Judaism's first and second Temples, the primary area of worship for the Jewish faith and the location in which Gods "shekhina," or presence, is thought by Jews to reside. The area is about the size of 15 football stadiums.
King Solomon built the First Temple at the Mount almost 3,000 years ago, but it was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. and 70 years later rebuilt by the Israelites returning from exile. It was later refashioned by King Herod at the same site.
Although is not mentioned by name in the Quran, the Temple Mount is also commonly identified by Muslims as the "furthermost sanctuary," the site from which the Prophet Muhammad, accompanied by the Angel Gabriel, made the Night Journey to the Throne of God.
In addition, Christianity considers the area historically important. The book of Luke records that Jesus, raised a devout Jew, was dedicated in the Second Temple in accordance with the Laws of Moses, and describes Jesus' boyhood visit to the Temple, which, it is written in John, he cleansed at Passover and during the last week of his life. Jesus once referred to the Temple as His "Father's house."
No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you aren't informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
mark
Gee they sure aren't models of "inclusivity" -- what would ECUSA say?
We are seeing a growing uncooperative attitude of the Waqf towards anyone who questions their mgmt of the Temple Mount area.
The Waqf has been engages (for several years now) in what is believed to be archeologically destructive construction work.
For more details, please visit either of these sites:
http://www.templeinstitute.org/moslem_destruction.htm
http://www.har-habayt.org/
I think everyone would agree that this needs to be stopped...but it likely won't stop.
I don't begrudge them their prayer, merely their existence.
Friendly bunch of lunatics, huh?
Proselyting is punishable by death.
ROP has much to offer.
Thanks.
Surprise, surprise - Christians can pray without anyone knowing it (except the Father and the enemy).
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Just another reason why the MSM will fail. Instead of enlightening us they hide what this religion is all about.
Muslims have a bad habit of co-opting other religions' holy sites. And then trashing them.
Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Koran.
Muslims have a bad habit of co-opting other religions' holy sites. And then trashing them.
Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Koran.
Fear Not
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