[E Rocc]

The Dome of the Rock was completed in 691 AD. The Al Aqsa Mosque was completed in 705 AD. Histories of the time say that either replaced anything but debris, the Persians ruled Jerusalem for several years before the Muslims (with the assistance of the Jews of Palestine) captured the city. The Jewish Temple had been gone for nearly 600 years. It was destroyed not by Muslims, but by Romans.

If these were 1400 year old churches or synagogues built under similar circumstances that radical Muslims were proposing to destroy, the outrage on these forums would be intense to say the least. Recall the reaction to the Taliban's destruction of the Buddha statues in Afghanistan. Destruction of these two mosques would be an offense against both belief and history an order of magnitude greater.

Even the Israelis, with the exception of a few groups out on the fringe, respect the Haram-al-Sharif.

-Eric

[Darksheare]

Memory refresher:
http://www.infoclick.org/nutshell3.html

[Taiwan Bocks]

Destruction of these two mosques would be an offense against both belief and history an order of magnitude greater.

Timberrrrrrr!