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From the Temple Institute FB site- there are pictures- I do not understand how to upload ...
AN UNEXPECTED CHALLENGE TO MUSLIM HOLY TEMPLE DENIAL (3 photos)
A Muslim Admission: Al Aqsa Mosque is on "Borrowed Ground"
The Muslim Wakf, which administers the Temple Mount, in coordination with the Palestinian Authority and the Islamic Movement in Israel, have been conducting a sustained international campaign of Holy Temple denial. In an attempt to rewrite history and claim Muslim exclusivity to the Temple Mount, the contemporary Muslim world denies that there ever existed a first or second Holy Temple. This is in direct contradistinction to the official Wakf publication of its English language tour guides from the 1920s, 30s and 40s, in which specific reference is made on page four, paragraph two, proudly announcing the Temple Mount's inexorable connection to the Holy Temple built by King Solomon on land purchased by King David, complete with a reference to II Samuel 24:25.
A second reference to the Second Temple is made on page sixteen, again in the second paragraph describing the underground chamber known as Solomon's Stables. Quoting the Jewish historian Josephus, the document cites the "conquest of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70 AD."
[http://www.templeinstitute.org/wakf-1925-guidebook.htm]
Both references were deleted in the 1950s, after the kingdom of Jordan gained control over the Temple Mount Muslim Wakf.
In addition, for over ten years the Wakf has been overseeing the wholesale destruction of Holy Temple archaeological remnants, and the building of a vast underground "mosque" in the southern half of the Mount, all for the same purpose of keeping the Jews and the state of Israel away from the holy site.
The passages below are excerpted from a Times of Israel blog written by Dr. Qanta Ahmed. Dr. Qanta Ahmed is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York (Stony Brook), as well as a non-fiction author. The blog describes her personal journey as a Muslim to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Dr. Ahmed's frank observations, quoted below, shed great light on the duplicity and evil intention of the Temple denial propaganda being spewed by official Muslimdom. Dr. Ahmed writes:
"Leaving the Dome, we walked South, on to Al Aqsa. It was hotter still. At the doorway, four men gently chatting took in the scene of the American tourist and her guide. Patiently, they waited for the Asr prayer. My spirits lifted. This was a more animated scene, their expressions, refreshingly benign.
Caption of Picture 1
Low domed roofs arched overhead, each rendered in the same limestone. Pleasing corridors stretched in longitudinal halls. Here and there, a lone woman studied her Quran. Other than that, Ibrahim and I were alone. We walked around the corner and, approaching a smaller vestibule, we confronted enormous columns. Their diameter deeper than the height of a tall man, they were disproportionate to the low roof. Each of the massive pillars were carefully supported by modern concrete abutments and steel girdles. These pillars looked much older. They didn’t belong to Al Aqsa. Nearby, Ibrahim pointed out the roof overhead. A distinct break in the brickwork was evident.
Caption of Picture 2
“'This was the entrance to the Second Jewish Temple that was here before Al Aqsa. You can see it is absolutely distinct.' And without doubt, it was easy to see, this had been a place of worship for Jews centuries before. Perhaps we were standing at the gate. Somehow, these hardy arches, these massive pillars had escaped even the Romans’ determined destruction of the Second Temple. Before this place was made ours, it had clearly been theirs. We were on borrowed ground. Incredible at something so ancient, confronted with the profound reality preceding Islam, we fell into the shared silence of young believers."
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