Expiating the shame of losing to Jews in 1948 takes greater precedence than treating holy things with reverence.
Jerusalem, May 10 – Authorities on the Muslim faith around the world agreed today (Monday) that the religion assigns greater importance to asserting dominance, violently if possible, over inferior peoples such as Jews, than to upholding the sedate glory of the religion’s third-holiest site. The rulings came in the context of images showing rocks, fireworks, and other implements of violence that Palestinians have stockpiled in the shrine in anticipation of conflict with Israeli authorities who would dare protect Jews who wish to worship at or near the site.
Imams and scholars of Islam reacted over the last several days to scenes of preparation for violence even within the sacred confines of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where mainstream Islamic tradition has Muhammad the Prophet stopping during his legendary Night Journey. Palestinian leaders and interest groups have fanned sectarian flames over a real estate dispute in the city’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, fomenting violent clashes with Israeli police and attacks on Israeli civilians under the pretext of “protecting” Al-Aqsa but with the stated goal of denying Jews access to the site, which sits at the southern end of a plateau where two Jewish Temples stood and where Jews face during prayer.
“It is a straightforward principle that attacking, and preferably killing, Jews, ranks higher than preserving Al-Aqsa’s dignity in Islamic sensibilities,” explained Imam Mustafa Massikr of Istanbul. “Allah finds greater pleasure in the degradation of the infidel descendants of apes and pigs, at the hands of His faithful, than in mere maintenance of His holy places. Expiating the great shame of losing to the inferior scum Jews in 1948, 1967, and a bunch of other times takes far greater precedence than treating holy things with reverence. If undoing the humiliation of losing to a bunch of Holocaust survivors and refugees who weren’t even allowed to possess weapons under British rule requires using worship space as arsenal instead of sanctuary, so be it. Allahu Akbar.”
“The thing is, Islamic possession and administration of Al-Aqsa, and of the entire Haram al-Sharif,” observed Palestinian scholar Aiwil Qillem, using the Islamic term for the Temple Mount, has never really been about worship. The entire institution of it as an Islamic holy site is to stick it to the Jews by placing the Dome of the Rock right where their Temples were, and to claim the entire mountain as sacred only for Muslims, with others barred from the place. So it’s perfectly consistent that the so-called sanctity of Al-Aqsa takes a back seat to physically degrading and abusing Jews, because that’s the whole essence of the location.”
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