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| Sheikh Tamimi warns of Al-Aqsa mosque collapsing |
| 2010-01-19 |
| [Ma'an] Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi, chief Islamic judge for the Palestinian Authority, warned that the Al-Aqsa Mosque suffers from cracks and fissures in the walls, a sign of its impending collapse, as a result of Israeli excavations below it, he said on Monday. Sheikh Tamimi further warned that houses in the surround neighborhood are at risk resulting from the Israeli Antiquities Authority working a night and removing dozens of bags with stones from the excavation site south of the mosque. He further spoke of the rise in extremist Jewish, as well as military intrusion into the compound, including the entry of 50 students from various departments of archeology in Israeli universities to undertake research and of settlers while women prayed, he said. The Sheikh held the Israeli government responsible for the collapses and deterioration around the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surrounding environs and cautioned that Islamic and Christian sites are in jeopardy. Sheikh Tamimi further called on Arabs and Muslims throughout the world to assist in halting the on-going Israeli excavations near the holy site. His comments follow the another collapse in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, creating a 12 meter square hole in the middle of Wadi Hilwah street. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Can someone who's an expert in Nitrogen Chemistry lower it's potential energy? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-01-19 17:16 |
| #9 I think it is just because the upkeep on a thousand year old building is not up to par. Maybe Insha'Allah isn't such a good maintenance solution. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-01-19 16:29 |
| #8 Good. It's butt ugly anyway. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-01-19 13:01 |
| #7 It was the mooselimbs trying to dig out and destroy the walls of the first temple that is under their upside down toilet bowl that will cause the thing to collapse. |
| Posted by: newc 2010-01-19 10:52 |
| #6 I remember when the muslims were excavating the Jewish temple, Israeli archaeologists sifted through the hundreds of dump truck loads of dirt for artifacts. They found that muslims had gone through the fill first and smashed into tiny pieces all the pre-islamic artifacts in keeping with muslim ubermenschen lore that nothing worthwhile existed before Mo and his band of merry bandits. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-01-19 07:40 |
| #5 Ironic - excavation of a Jewish Temple UNDERNEATH a mosque in a land the Muslims say they, and not the Jews, have a right to. Seems like the Israelis could just bulldoze the mosque to get at the underlying temple ruins. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-01-19 07:30 |
| #4 Does Sheiky mean these excavations? Or is this an experiment to answer the age old question: is hypocrisy stronger than gravity? |
| Posted by: ed 2010-01-19 06:59 |
| #3 I think Israel needs to excavate the area to prove to the world once and for all that this is another lie. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-01-19 03:35 |
| #2 You've been offered (at great cost to us) peace---you should've taken it. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-01-19 01:59 |
| #1 about time |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-01-19 00:10 |
