Muslims stone Christians at Temple Mount

Using real stones, a group of about 50 Muslims, deciding that non-Muslims should be punished for daring to desecrate the third holiest site in Islam, attacked with a vengence.  Never mind that the Temple Mount is the first holiest site for both Jews and Christians, the fact that the site is administered by Islam, and it is they who decide the rules on behavior means that no one can worship there with impunity, as their faith dictates.  Muslims control the Temple Mount, and Jews as well as Christians are only able to visit when Muslims decide they can.

Disgusting.

From Israel Today Feb 19


Muslims stone Christians on Temple Mount

A mob of some 50 Palestinian Muslims stoned a group of Christian tourists atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount on Sunday morning. Three of the Israeli police officers who acted to protect the Christian group were wounded by the stone-throwers.

Police arrested 11 Palestinians, several of them minors, for their role in the attack.

The attack is believed to have been instigated by the former Muslim mufti of Jerusalem, Ekrama Sabri, who told Palestinian media over the weekend that Jewish groups were planning to break into the mosques that occupy the holy compound and desecrate them.

Sabri urged all local Muslims to protect the mosques from "the Israeli conspiracy against the city and its holy places."

Muslim religious figures regularly claim that Israel is plotting to destroy the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque to pave the way for the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple, which the Muslims now insist never previously existed.

Because of the constant threat of Muslim violence, and despite the fact that the Temple Mount is the most holy place on earth to Jews and many Christians, the Israeli police comply with Muslim demands for harsh restrictions on non-Muslim visitors to the site. For instance, Jews and Christians are forbidden to carry Bibles atop the Temple Mount or to utter even silent prayers within its walls. Jews and Christians are regularly detained for violating these conditions.

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