According to al-Aqsa-nik, Jewish temples did exist

Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily:

JERUSALEM – Contradicting most of his colleagues, a former senior leader of the Waqf, the Islamic custodians of the Temple Mount, told WorldNetDaily in an exclusive interview he has come to believe the first and second Jewish Temples existed and stood at the current location of the Al Aqsa Mosque.

The leader, who was dismissed from his Waqf position after he quietly made his beliefs known, said Al Aqsa custodians passed down stories for centuries from generation to generation indicating the mosque was built at the site of the former Jewish temples.

He said the Muslim world's widespread denial of the existence of the Jewish temples is political in nature and is not rooted in facts.

.... The former leader, who is well known to Al Aqsa scholars and Waqf officials, spoke on condition his name be withheld, claiming an on-the-record interview would endanger his life.

I appreciate this; after all, the man is apparently risking his life to speak the truth. I just don't understand how the world came to be turned so upside down that Am Yisrael waits for the HAMAS to "recognize Israel," and we feel grateful that an Arab Muslim concedes what the whole world has known all along. Well, the whole world .... except for the Arabs:

.... According to the website of the Palestinian Authority's Office for Religious Affairs, the Temple Mount is Muslim property. The site claims the Western Wall, which it refers to as the Al-Boraq Wall, previously was a docking station for horses. It states Muhammed tied his horse, named Boraq, to the wall before ascending to heaven.

In a previous interview with WorldNetDaily, Kamal Hatib, vice-chairman of the Islamic Movement, claimed the Al-Aqsa Mosque was built by angels and that a Jewish Temple may have existed but not in Jerusalem. The Movement, which works closely with the Waqf, is the Muslim group in Israel most identified with the Temple Mount.

"When the First Temple was built by Solomon – God bless him – Al Aqsa was already built. We don't believe that a prophet like Solomon would have built the Temple at a place where a mosque existed," said Hatib.

"And all the historical and archaeological facts deny any relation between the temples and the location of Al Aqsa. We must know that Jerusalem was occupied and that people left many things, coins and other things everywhere. This does not mean in any way that there is a link between the people who left these things and the place where these things were left," Hatib said.

I've never ever read before that Muslims believe that The Kotel was where Mohammed tied his horse.

And it gets worse when you google {Mohammed horse}. According to this Turkish tour guide (NB: I can't vouch for the authenticity of these teachings), the horse had wings, was presented to Mohammed by the angel Gavriel ... and was supposedly "the horse of Avraham."

I know that we've been tied in to our Ishmaelite cousins ever since Sarah kicked Hagar out of the tent, but lately that ancient familiarity's been breeding some contempt on my part.

Anyway, there you have it, horse and all. Please go sign this petition at OneJerusalem:

For a decade, Muslim religious authorities have participated in the destruction and elimination of precious Jewish and Christian artifacts on the site of Solomon's Temple, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Thousands of tons of earth, containing archaeological evidence dating back to the period of the Temple of Solomon, were discarded. Among the 'rubble' were ancient seals from a Priestly family, inscribed pottery fragments in Ancient Hebrew, Alter screens and broken columns from a fourth century Byzantine Church.

Since the year 2000, the Muslim religious authority – the Waqf - has blocked all archaeological oversight of the Temple Mount.

Meanwhile, the Waqf continues to construct Mosques on the sacred sites of Jews and Christians.

We believe the international and Israeli media should have unrestricted access to the Temple Mount.

We believe the world-respected Israeli Antiquities Authority be empowered to supervise the day to day activities on the Temple Mount.

Currently, the Waqf forbids any non-Muslim entrance, except on a selective and very limited basis. For instance, the Waqf does not give any observers access inside the vast subterranean rooms, from which many antiquities have been removed.

We demand the preservation and respect of the Temple Mount. Only full access and complete transparency for all parts of the Temple Mount can prevent further abuse and destruction of this site which has been venerated throughout history.

This petition should be in the New York Times (I'd bet the Lefties don't know any of this). I wonder how much a full-page ad would cost?

And for more on Jerusalem and the Temple Mount -past, present and future- see my post from June 5th.

Comments

[jenny]

Can I share some resources with you?

[Al-QUDS]

what an idiot,, spending all this time to write some silly lies. If there was anything thing under Al Aqsa, you would have found it long time ago, with all these tunnels under the mosque.