Muslims: Shofar Blasts During Jewish Month Of Elul A Call To Destroy Al Aqsa

As evidence, the Islamic authorities point to the fact that they never need real evidence.

Jerusalem, August 23 – Spiritual leaders at a contested Jerusalem holy site are warning that the Jewish practice of sounding a ram’s horn each weekday morning this lunar month is meant to exhort Jews to demolish the mosque that stands there and replace it with a Jewish temple.

During Elul, the final month of the Jewish year, tradition calls for communities to sound the shofar at the end of the morning prayer service, a custom with ancient roots intended to rouse the individual from the figurative slumber of inertia and spark renewed vigor in pursuit of relationship with the Almighty and with fellow humans. However, Islamic authorities are claiming the ritual has a far more sinister purpose, to rally the faithful to flock to the site of the alleged ancient Jewish temples and begin their reconstruction by destroying the Islamic shrines atop the plateau.

As evidence, the Islamic authorities point to the fact that they never need real evidence. “We just make assertions and expect to be believed,” they explained. “That holds true in doctrinal matters as well as political and ethnic matters. We just have our ‘narrative,’ as you might call it, and it would be racist for anyone to challenge that narrative with facts. You wouldn’t want to be accused of racism, would you?”

The Jewish “cover story” of the ram’s horn representing divine mercy cannot be true, insisted the imams. “Mercy has no place in this world,” they argued. “Mercy means weakness – that one is unwilling to follow through with what must be done as justice demands. When someone shows you compassion, it is an admission of weakness to be exploited. Attributing such a characteristic to Allah would be blasphemous. Compassion is the devil’s tool, and has no place in this world. No wonder the Jews preach it!”

Among the facts that would be brought to counter the preachers’ assertions, if one were unconcerned about being labeled a racist, are the origins of the practice earlier than the advent of Islam, and the total lack of the Al Aqsa connection in even the most obscure Jewish sources.

“That’s uh, an interesting claim,” mused Rabbi Shvarim Trua, who blows the shofar at Congregation Keren Yisrael. “I mean, I’ve been studying the Talmud, commentaries, codifiers, and supercommentaries for decades, and have never seen anything remotely like that, but obviously, if an Islamic leader says it, it must be true. Who is anyone else to argue, you know?”

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