The Big Lie

The Big Lie, That the Temple Mount Historically belongs to Islam
Waqf officials say the site will never be returned to Israeli sovereignty

By de Andréa

JERUSALEM

The placement of the replica of the historic podium on the original site in the Al Aqsa Mosque that will be transported with the coordination of Israeli security forces is "proof that the Temple Mount belongs only to Muslims and will never be returned to Jewish sovereignty this according to the leader of the Waqf". (The Muslim custodians of the Jewish Temple Mount)

“This historic occasion will prove that the Israeli extremist will never achieve their goals of taking over the Temple Mount. It shows that we are much closer to liberating the Al Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem from the occupation of Israel," said Waqf chief Adnan Husseini.

In a ceremony At the Al Aqsa Mosque, the podium is set to be unveiled and installed at the "exact spot" Waqf officials state that the prophet Muhammad went up to heaven to receive revelations from Allah. The podium will be used by Al Aqsa Imams to deliver sermons.

The new stand replaces a 1,000-year-old podium that was destroyed in 1969, when an Australian tourist set fire to the Al Aqsa Mosque; it was believed to have been shipped to Jerusalem by the Islamic conqueror Saladin. .

Four years under construction, the replacement stand, a replica of the original, was funded by the Jordanian and Saudi governments the podium's partially assembled parts will be shipped to Waqf offices on the Temple Mount sometime in January 2007, and will be installed at the center of the Al Aqsa Mosque near the first of February.

According to Biblical history the First Jewish Temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity, and destroyed again by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. Each temple stood for a period of about four to five hundred years.
The Jewish Temple was the center of religious Jewish worship. It housed the Holy of Holies, which contained the Ark of the Covenant and was said to be the area upon which God's "presence" dwelt. The Al Aqsa Mosque now resides on this site.

The Temple Mount compound has remained a focal point for Jewish services over the millennia. Prayers for a return to Jerusalem have been uttered by Jews since the Second Temple was destroyed. Jews worldwide pray facing toward the Western Wall, a portion of an outer courtyard of the last Temple left intact. This wall the Muslims claim was for Mohammad to tie his horse.

The Al Aqsa Mosque was constructed around 709 to serve as a shrine near another shrine, the Dome of the Rock, which was built by an Islamic Caliph. Al Aqsa was meant to mark what Muslims came to believe Muhammad, the founder of Islam, ascended to heaven.

It is Interesting that Jerusalem is not even mentioned in the Quran, and yet Islam claims that it is an Islamic historical site. Islamic tradition holds that Mohammed took a journey in a single night from "a sacred mosque” believed to be in Mecca in southern Saudi Arabia, to "the farthest mosque" and from a rock there ascended to heaven. The farthest mosque later became to be associated with Jerusalem.

Most Waqf officials deny the Jewish temples ever existed in spite of the overwhelming archaeological evidence, including the discovery of Temple-era artifacts linked to worship, tunnels that snake under the Temple Mount and over 100 ritual immersion pools believed to have been used by the Jewish priests to cleanse themselves before services. The cleansing process is detailed in the Torah.

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, is a wall that is referred to as the Al-Boraq Wall, previously a docking station for horses. It states Mohammed tied his horse, named Boraq, to the wall before ascending into heaven.

Islam’s Al Aqsa Mosque was built before the first Jewish Temple???

According to Hatib of Waqf “When the First Temple was built by Solomon; the Islamic Mosque 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". Now this is an interesting lie, because the prophet Mohammad was not even born when Solomon built the first temple in approximately the year 1000 BC, Mohammad, being born in 570 AD. Moreover the Al Aqsa temple wasn’t built until 740 AD; this is 1740 years after the first Jewish temple was built by Solomon. Moreover, as a matter of historical fact, two temples were built by the Jews and were destroyed 640 years before Mohammad was born and 680 years before Mohammad became Islam’s self-proclaimed prophet. All historical, mathematical, and archaeological facts deny any relation between the location of Al Aqsa Mosque and the Temple Mount prior to the Jewish Temples.

An Al Aqsa official admits: Jewish Temples existed

In June of 2006, a former senior leader of the Waqf contradicted his colleagues, saying that he has come to believe the first and second Jewish Temples existed and stood at the current location of the Al Aqsa Mosque, Now this is a Muslim that at least knows his basic math.

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 that 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, would you believe it, an honest Muslim.

He goes on to say "The Prophet Solomon built his famous Temple at the same place that later the Al Aqsa Mosque was built. It cannot be a coincidence that these different holy sites were built at the same place. The Jewish Temple Mount existed; it is true that Islamic tradition falsely relates that the Jewish temples once stood at the site of the Al Aqsa Mosque.”

“The existence of the Jewish Temple at the site is obvious according to studies, researches, and archaeological discoveries. But especially according to the history that passed from one generation to another, “we believe Al Aqsa was built on the same place were the Temple of the Jews the first monotheistic religion existed." said the former senior Waqf leader.

He continues: "We were taught that the Christians, especially those who believed that Jesus was crucified by the Jews, used to throw their garbage at the Temple Mount site. They used to throw the pieces of cotton and other material Christian women used in cleaning the blood of their monthly cycle. In doing so, they believed that they were humiliating, insulting, and harming the Jews at their holiest site. This way they are hurting them like the Jews hurt the Christians when crucifying Jesus”.

"It is known also that most of the first guards of Al Aqsa when it was built were Jews. The Muslims knew at that time that they could not find any more loyal and faithful people than the Jews to guard the mosque and its compound. They knew that the Jews have a special relation with this place."

Temple Mount: a no-prayer zone
Currently, even though the Jewish state controls Jerusalem, the Waqf serve as the custodians of the Temple Mount under a deal made with the Israeli government that restricts non-Muslim prayer at the site.

The Temple Mount was opened to the general public until September 2000, when the Palestinians started their intifada by throwing stones at Jewish worshipers after then-candidate for prime minister Ariel Sharon visited the area.

Following the onset of violence, the new Sharon government closed the Mount to non-Muslims, using checkpoints to control all pedestrian traffic for fear of further clashes with the Palestinians.
The Temple Mount was reopened to non-Muslims in August 2003, and is still open, but only Sundays through Thursdays, and not on any Christian, Jewish or Muslim holidays or other days considered "sensitive" by the Waqf.

During "open" days, Jews and Christians are allowed to ascend the Mount, usually through organized tours and only if they conform first to a strict set of guidelines, which includes demands that they are not to pray or bring any "holy objects" to the site. Visitors are banned from entering any of the mosques without direct Waqf permission. Rules are enforced by Waqf agents, who watch tours closely and alert nearby Israeli police to any breaking of their guidelines.

Israel to take control of the Temple Mount

All of these claims; in spite of the fact that the Palestinians have no historical claim to this area between Egypt and Lebanon at all, in other words in all of ancient history there was never a country called Palestine, or even a people called Palestinians. The people of today known as Palestinians are actually a people that were exiled from Jordan for being terrorists.

Egypt, until the rule of the Pharaoh Ramses in Approximately the year 1250 BC, held captive the Nation of Israel, when he reluctantly let the Jewish slaves go free. After wandering in the area of the Sinai Peninsula for nearly 40 years the Israelis arrived in an area known as Canaan, a land that stretched from just south of the Dead Sea and north to and including parts of southern Syria and Lebanon between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. This more than 1800 years before Islam even existed.

As advanced as the Middle Eastern Arabs and Persians were at that time in Mathematics, it seems that today they cannot even add well enough to keep their timeline straight. Of course when one lies about the time line of history one will eventually get caught, because the math will not add up.

It is a curious thing that the Israelis even put up with these Islamic invaders of their land and especially the Temple Mount which the Muslims have obviously stolen from Israel. Moreover, even in the face of all documented history, They lie about their historical claim as well, this is the most sacred place on earth in Jewish History.

According to Biblical Prophecy, Israel will rebuild their temple once again, and right on the very spot that Solomon built the first one. This of course would require that the Al Aqsa Mosque be removed. This will be an Interesting event, just to see how this will all play out on the world Stage and to see yet another Biblical Prophecy come to fruition.

de Andréa