"Jerusalem Is Muslim," Temple Mount "100% Islamic"

"Jerusalem is Muslim. The blessed Al Aqsa mosque and Harem Al Sharif (Temple Mount) is 100 percent Muslim. The Israelis are playing with fire when they threaten Al Aqsa with digging that is taking place," said Abbas' chief of staff Rafiq Al Husseini. He also said that any Israeli action that "offends" the Mount will be answered by 1.5 billion Muslims. The Temple Mount is Judaism's holiest site. It is not Islam's holiest site. Husseini's radical rhetoric was in response to Israel's plans to build a new bridge from the Western Wall area to the Temple Mount because the old bridge was damaged two years ago. When Israeli workers attempted to repair the bridge, the Palestinians said the work was threatening the Al Aqsa Mosque. This flies in the face of facts. The mosque is located hundreds of feet away. Not only that but the work did not tunnel under any Mount foundation or touch any structure connected to the mosque. Finally, the repair work was conducted under the scrutiny of an accessible 24/7 webcam.

Let us remember who Israel is dealing with here. Taysir Tamimi, chief Palestinian Justice and second most important cleric after the Mufti of Jerusalem has said the Jewish Temples never existed, the Western Wall really was a tying post for Muhammad's horse, and Abraham, Moses and Jesus were prophets for Islam. "Israel started since 1967 making archeological digs to show Jewish signs to prove the relationship between Judaism and the city and they found nothing. There is no Jewish connection to Israel before the Jews invaded in the 1880s," said Tamimi. "About these so-called two Temples, they never existed." He said that the "the Western wall is the western wall of the Al Aqsa Mosque. It's where Prophet Muhammad tied his animal which took him from Mecca to Jerusalem to receive the revelations of Allah." Excavations prove the Jewish Temples existed, but Tamimi claims that "all this is not real. We don't believe in all your versions. Your Torah was falsified. The text as given to the Muslim prophet Moses never mentions Jerusalem. Maybe Jerusalem was mentioned in the rest of the Torah, which was falsified by the Jews."

Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran. It is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible 656 times. Jews pray toward Jerusalem. Muslims turn their backs on Jerusalem and face Mecca. Yet apparently "Jerusalem is Muslim" and the Temple Mount is "100% Islamic?" Tweet