Islamic Movement leader Sheikh Raed Salah. Photo: Associated Press
Posted on 03/10/2008 4:37:06 PM PDT by SJackson
The al-Aqsa mosque was never the site of a Jewish temple, Sheikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, said Monday during a press conference he convened in Jerusalem to respond to voices calling for the expulsion of Israeli residents of the city who participate in terror activities against Israel.
Islamic Movement leader Sheikh Raed Salah. Photo: Associated Press
"Those calling for the expulsion of Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem are hysterical and stupid and belong in the trash can," Salah said at the conference.
He went on to deny any Israeli or Jewish historical claim to the city, denying that there ever existed a Jewish temple on the Temple Mount.
"The claims of the Jews are big lies and they have no right to any speck of dust here," he said.
Israel, he claimed, was carrying out extensive digs under al-Aqsa mosque, and was hiding destructive tunnels under the compound which had already caused damage to the mosque and several houses in the Muslim Quarter.
"I think that we are at a critical time. We believe that al-Aqsa is in danger and that it is under occupation, and we believe that Jerusalem is in danger because it is under occupation," Salah said. "Jerusalem is not only houses - it is faith, it is history, it is a culture, it is a present, a future and an eternal right that we will not relinquish."
In January, Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz filed an indictment against Salah, charging him with incitement to violence and racism in a speech he made last year protesting the archeological dig carried out at the Old City's Mughrabi Gate.
During his sermon in Jerusalem's Wadi Joz neighborhood on February 16 of last year, Salah urged supporters to start a third intifada in order to "save al-Aksa Mosque, free Jerusalem and end the occupation."
Salah's speech also attacked Jews, saying, "They want to build their temple at a time when our blood is on their clothes, on their doorsteps, in their food and in their drinks. Our blood has passed from one 'general terrorist' to another 'general terrorist.'"
He also said, "We are not those who ate bread dipped in children's blood."
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I have to hand it to him, the dude is certainly eloquent!
Does Islam give a believer a relief from rationality, a relief from factual history?
This seems to be a common thread.
The Jews don’t exist, they never have existed and they never will exist.
Now let’s get rid of them quickly.
God laughs at this foolishness.
Dear sheikh - not only WAS there a temple on Temple Mount, there WILL BE one there again - and soon. Your little mosque is going to disappear.
btt
Should have plowed the temple of the rock under in ‘67.
Indeed, you’re right. Maybe his little mosque will be near the trashcan where muslims go for dinner.
Yes, Saladin took back the Dome of the Rock “Temple” and cleaned out the trappings of the Knights Templar and turned it back into a mosque (it was built on the site of the Temple of Israel but was built as a mosque I believe). But to deny that the Temple was there is to deny History and the Bible, the God of which the Islamists purport to believe in.
This has all happened before. From Nehamiah Chapter 4
1But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
2And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
Hey, quit reading my mind, willya? It's creeping me out!
“Does Islam give a believer a relief from rationality, a relief from factual history?”
All the time - that’s why we gulp it down everywhere in the West, hook, line and sinker. Don’t blame Islam and its myriad ways of deception, blame the West for its cowardice and naivete.
Lies are a way of life to the Arab way of thinking. You lie to yourself, you lie to your neighbors, you lie to posterity, you lie about history, you read the lies they are telling you in the newspapers; and you save your best lies for your friends and family. Enemies (i.e. everyone) are to be lied to out of hand and as a matter of course; especially if they are infidels.
LLS
This proves he is a lying SOS.
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