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| Sunnis: "Jews Have No Rights, Holy Places in Jerusalem" |
| 2005-03-27 |
| Denying participation in a talked-about conference of the three monotheistic religions on sacred rights in Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem), Al-Azhar said on Sunday, March 27, that Jews have no religious rights whatsoever in the holy city. "There is nothing called sacred rights in Al-Quds," Sheikh Fawzi El-Zefzaf, chairman of Al-Azhar's Interfaith Dialogue Committee, told reporters. "Al-Quds is a Palestinian right that should be given back to the Palestinians," he stressed. Mohammad Abu Ghadir, professor of Hebrew in Al-Azhar University, agreed. "Excavations and geological research have proved that Jews didn't have any right to claim sacred places in Al-Quds," he said. "Israeli archeologists didn't even manage to prove that the "wailing wall" is part of the so-called Temple of Solomon," Abu Ghadir added. "Unfortunately, the world mistakenly believes that Jews do have sacred sites in Al-Quds like Muslims and Christians because of Israel's heavy media campaigns that distorted historical facts." Al-Azhar, the highest Sunni authority in the Muslim world, categorically denied that it will take part in the reported conference. "Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohammad Sayed Tantawi has not received any invitation of that kind," an official source said. He underlined that Al-Azhar's stance remains unchanged as it rejects talks with Jews over Al-Quds "because it is a very thorny issue that has not been yet resolved" on the political arena. Sheikh El-Zefzaf said his committee has not got the faintest idea of such a meeting. Some media reports suggested that preparations were underway to organize a conference grouping Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders on the religious rights of each faith in the holy city. Al-Haram Al-Sharif was the first Qibla (direction Muslims take during prayers) and is the third holiest shrine after Al Ka'ba in Makkah and Prophet Mhuhammad's Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Its significance has been reinforced by the incident of Al Isra'a and Al Mi'raj (the night journey from Makkah to Al-Quds and the ascent to the Heavens by Prophet Muhammad). |
| Posted by:too true |
| #10 One Project Plowshare harbour coming up! Where do I send the bill? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-03-27 11:45:38 PM |
| #9 I agree. Turn it into the third holiest site in the Mediterranean Sea. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-03-27 11:25:51 PM |
| #8 Al-Azhar, the highest Sunni authority in the Muslim world, is an ass who needs to be reminded that Jerusalem was Jewish for well over a thousand years before Mhuhammad got other ideas. If that's the way the highest Sunni thinks, then Muslims should be banned from Jerusalem and the Palestinian "refugees" should be relocated to the Sunni Triangle. Any future Muslim-initiated Israeli war is going to be brutal compared to the last, for surely the Israelis have now learned that they will only have peace by obliterating their enemies. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-03-27 10:19:48 PM |
| #7 SPoD has it right. Then say to the ass hats, "What holy places?" Israel should have done it in 1967. They were the first conqueror in Jerusalem not to destroy other religions' sites. tick, tick, tick... |
| Posted by: SR-71 2005-03-27 9:53:02 PM |
| #6 A few more speeches like that and muslims will be banned from Jerusalem, the Al Aqsa mosque returned to its former state as the Templar Stables, and the Dome of the Rock razed to make room for the Third Temple. And if the Sunnis try and do anything about it, their dead will be stacked like cordwood. |
| Posted by: RWV 2005-03-27 9:19:31 PM |
| #5 âThere is nothing called sacred rights in Al-Quds,â Sheikh Fawzi El-Zefzaf, chairman of Al-Azhar's Interfaith Dialogue Committee, told reporters. And there ya have it, folks. Right from the head dude of the Interfaith |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-03-27 9:07:50 PM |
| #4 Isreal really needs to just take over the Temple Mount, while at the same time allowing Muslims to continue prayers like they always have. Only difference would be it's under different management. I mean, what are the Arab Nations going to do with us in Iraq and Isreal able to kick their asses by themselves anyway. Wailing wil ensue, yes, but it will subdue with the right PR campaigning. |
| Posted by: Charles 2005-03-27 8:35:24 PM |
| #3 I say we let the Muslims visit Jerusalem the same way the false prophet Mohammad did -- in their deluded dreams. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-03-27 8:32:44 PM |
| #2 Not that logic is their strong suit, but I'd love to hear this clown explain how Christians could have sacred sites in |
| Posted by: VAMark 2005-03-27 8:21:02 PM |
| #1 I would solve it once and for all with several tons of TNT placed and detonated in the dome of the rock leaving nothing but a pile of rubble. Said rubble to be carted off to the desert to a secret site in the middle of the night where it would be ground into fine dust and then spread in the ocean. These Islamist assclowns are johnny come lately fools who have some retarded claim to this crap hole on the temple mount established to justify the lie that is Islam. I assert that Christians and Jews are the only rightful claimants to anything anywhere in Jerusalem. Islam is a foreign and alien death cult totally unconnected to Jerusalem. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-03-27 8:07:14 PM |