Video Of The Week- How Did Islam Get Involved with the Temple Mount? - http://tinyurl.com/yan32wg9
Article from Gatestone Institute by Khadija Khan
July 29, 2017
Full Article - http://tinyurl.com/yb3yy5wa
- Metal detectors
and are commonplace at most prominent mosques in the Middle East, and more
than 5,000 surveillance cameras (and 100,000 security guards) monitor
pilgrims to Mecca in Saudi Arabia during the annual Hajj.
- While the
Palestinian terrorist was being treated for his wounds in an Israeli
hospital, the Palestinian Authority celebrated his actions and set in
motion the mechanism according to which he will receive a salary of more
than $3,000 per month for his attempt to become a "martyr" through
murdering Jews.
- It is time for
the international community to stop enabling radicals to use the
Palestinian people as pawns in their greater agenda, transparent to
everyone, including all Muslims: to obliterate Israel through
delegitimization.
After massive pressure from the Muslim world and
international community, Israel removed
all metal detectors and surveillance-camera infrastructure from the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem, the location of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Possibly to obfuscate the reason that the metal
detectors were installed in the first place -- a terrorist attack on July 14, in which three Israeli Arab
citizens killed two Israeli Druze police officers with weapons they had hidden
inside the mosque -- the Palestinian Authority (PA) called on Muslims to
boycott the site and launch "days of rage"
against the Jewish state.
Palestinians, claiming that the metal detectors were a
"desecration" of the mosque -- which is actually located on the
holiest site in Judaism and the third-holiest in Islam - entered into violent
clashes with Israeli security forces. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
denounced Israel and called on Muslims to "protect" Jerusalem.
Palestinian teenager posted on Facebook his intention
to become a "martyr," before entering the home of a Jewish family in
the West Bank and slaughtering three of its members. While this terrorist was
being treated for his wounds in an Israeli hospital, the Palestinian Authority
celebrated his actions and set in motion the mechanism according to which he will receive
a salary of more than $3,000 per month for his attempt to become a
"martyr" through murdering Jews.
Then, on July 23, a terrorist in Jordan -- the country
that has religious custodianship over the Temple Mount through the
Islamic Waqf -- attacked an Israeli security officer at the Israeli embassy
compound in Amman. In self-defense, the officer shot and killed him, catching
another Jordanian in the crossfire. In an deal between Israel and the Jordanian authorities, the guard
and other embassy staff were released, apparently in exchange for a promise
that the metal detectors would be removed from the entrance to the Temple
Mount.
The metal detectors, however, had nothing to do with
the real reason for the inflamed atmosphere -- stoked by PA President Mahmoud
Abbas' Fatah faction and the terrorist organization Hamas, which rules the Gaza
Strip -- in spite of the fact that the attack that spurred their installation
was committed by Israeli Muslims against Israeli Druze. In reality, the
security measures were taken by Israel to protect all people entering the site
-- where only Muslims are allowed to pray, while Christians and Jews may visit
only under strict surveillance.
Proof that the violence was not provoked by measures
that were actually aimed at preventing terrorists from infiltrating deadly
weapons onto the Temple Mount lies in the fact that metal detectors and are commonplace at most prominent mosques in the Middle East, and more than 5,000
surveillance cameras (and 100,000 security guards) monitor pilgrims to Mecca in
Saudi Arabia during the annual Hajj. Furthermore, everyone visiting the Western
Wall in Jerusalem, another Jewish holy site, is required to pass through metal
detectors before entering the plaza -- a protection taken for granted.
The ongoing incitement against Israelis -- this time
using metal detectors as the excuse to claim that the Jewish state is
attempting to change the "status quo" on the Temple Mount -- not only disgraces
Islam; it hurts the Palestinians whom the world claims to want to defend.
It is time for the international community to recognize
this and stop enabling radicals to use the Palestinian people as pawns in their
greater agenda, transparent to everyone, including all Muslims: to obliterate
Israel through delegitimization.
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