Mufti: “Western Wall Was Never Part Of Temple”
The Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount and the Western wall.
This is very significant. If other muftis pick up on this whacked out pukes load of horseshit, and it spreads, fatwahs could be issued, and we got ourselves a bunch of crazed Islamofascists demanding the Temple Mount. I can not express to you how very significant this event is…
~Bash
The former mufti of Jerusalem, Ikrema Sabri, has made the claim that there never was a Jewish temple on the Temple Mount, and the Western Wall was really part of a mosque.
“There was never a Jewish temple on Al-Aksa [the mosque compound] and there is no proof that there was ever a temple,” he told The Jerusalem Post via a translator. “Because Allah is fair, he would not agree to make Al-Aksa if there were a temple there for others beforehand.”
Sabri rejected Judaism’s claim to the Western Wall as part of the outer wall of the Second Temple.
“The wall is not part of the Jewish temple. It is just the western wall of the mosque,” he said. “There is not a single stone with any relation at all to the history of the Hebrews.”
Asked if Jews would ever be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount under Muslim control, he replied: “It is not the Temple Mount, you must say Al-Aksa. And no Jews have the right to pray at the mosque. It was always only a mosque - all 144 dunams, the entire area. No Jewish prayer. If the Jews want real peace, they must not do anything to try to pray on Al-Aksa. Everyone knows that.”
“Zionism tries to trick the Jews claiming that this was part of a Jewish temple, but they dug there and they found nothing,” Sabri added.
Archeologists overseeing Islamic infrastructure work on the Mount announced this week that they had unveiled a sealed archeological level dating back to the First Temple period.
The First Temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century BCE, and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. The Second Temple was built 70 years later, enlarged during the first century BCE by Herod, and destroyed by the Romans in the year 70.
The Dome of the Rock and Al-Aksa Mosque were constructed on the Temple Mount site in the late seventh century.
The controversial issue of the holy sites is expected to come up during negotiations ahead of a US-sponsored summit on the Middle East in Annapolis later this year.
Palestinian leaders, most notably the late Yasser Arafat, have consistently denied Jewish claims to the Mount.
Sabri made the comments in an interview with the Post’s Friday supplement, In Jerusalem, for a cover story on how religious leaders view the capital.
JP article by Mike Seid here.
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That former mufti isn’t all that former, he’s still breathing.
The evil Jooos put that temple under that mosk just a couple of years ago. Dam, they’re good. If I remember correctly they used that new Jewish anti-gravity mosk weapon.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:00 am“Palestinian leaders, most notably the late Yasser Arafat, have consistently denied Jewish claims to the Mount.”
Exactly. This shit has been going on ALOT longer than any of us have been around. Fuck Arafat and that dipshit mufti. Ever been to the ME? Outside of Israel and parts of Lebanon it’s a real shithole.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:36 amDespite Ahmawhatevas most fervent dreams, Israel is never gonna surrender their state. His calls for a “referendum” will fall on deaf ears for another millenia because his ’side’ lost the last three (1948, 1967 and 1973).
These fucks can’t accomplish shit on their own and “peace” is never gonna happen. It’s past time to turn out the lights, turn off the water and stop catering to their punk asses. Wanna fight? Bring it on.
/rant
Another attempt to earase Jewish history. Not only is the Western Wall part of Herrod’s Temple but so is the Dome Of the Rock. Is it interesting that Muhammed died in his bed…he was not taken up to heaven where the Dome sits…and no mention is made of Jerusalem in the Koran. The Dome Of The Rock is a myth and a lie. Vespasian and Flavius Josephus would disagree with the mufti.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:50 amwhat an ass-clown
October 25th, 2007 at 10:29 amSOB I will not get sucked into this…I fell like smashing their heads against the wall for causing such discord over their “Holy Sites”…may an earth quake level the whole place so world will know peace their..
October 25th, 2007 at 4:27 pmTechnically, it was not part of the temple, but it was never, ever part of a mosque.
The first temple was on a hill, before it got leveled by the Assyrians.
When the second temple was built, they ‘made’ a new hill by piling earth and then building walls to hold the earth in its ‘hill’ shape. The Western Wall is one of those wall.
Either way, the Mufti is a retard.
October 25th, 2007 at 6:33 pm