Muslim Fury -- It is Their Way: Allahu Akbar!
"People are concerned and people will take precautions. No one expected this to happen here. We are religious here. And we believe God has a plan. Which is why you will not hear people here shouting for revenge and arguing about whether we should talk peace or not talk peace or fight. We leave that to the politicians."
"I think it can be pulled back [threat of more violence]. It does not have to get worse. It doesn't need to continue. I am hopeful."
David Herscowitz, Har Nof ultra-orthodox community, Jerusalem
"People from all religions which are here in the Holy Land want to express the common belief that this is not the way. We can have our differences, political differences, our religious differences, but this is not the way."
Rabbi Michael Melchior, former Israeli MK
Rabbi Melchior was among an interfaith delegation of Christians, Jews and Muslims who came together to visit the Kehillat Bnei Torah synagogue in the fresh wake of the carnage which left four rabbis and an Israeli police officer dead after two Israeli Arabs had stormed into the synagogue shouting 'God is Great!', brandishing meat cleavers, knives and a firearm. Not among the delegation were Jerusalem Muslim authorities, nor senior Israeli rabbis.
The furore over Muslim rage at the very idea that Jews might wish to pray at their most holy site representing their ancient Temples of Solomon, and the statements issued by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that Palestinians would never suffer the desecration of the Noble Sanctuary by the presence of Jews without a deadly conflict ensuing, certainly set the stage for the synagogue attack, inciting the two Muslim cousins to mount their attack on the synagogue.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock are untouchable, not to be defiled by the presence of Jews aspiring to pray at their most sacred Judaic site but a synagogue is ripe for defilement with bloodshed and death to the greater honour of Islamist martyrs. The anomalous absurdity of a nation of Jews forbidden to pray at their foremost holy site while those of another religion may freely pray and threaten violence should Jews ascend the Temple Mount could never occur anywhere else on Earth.
But the growing incitement by Palestinian authorities clamouring vociferously over the evil plans of Jews to desecrate Islam's third most holy site by daring to assume they too might pray there, ordering Palestinians to defy and 'resist' by any means feasible the presence of Jews on what they term the Noble Sanctuary has led to a violently deadly series of attacks against Jews, the synagogue attack merely the latest.
These are the kinds of attack against which no prior alarm can be given for they come out of nowhere. They are spontaneous in their execution, even if they have been planned in the minds of the psychopathic perpetrators before the event. They occur where no one might suspect deadly intent, at bus stops, public gatherings, synagogue worship, people consumed by ordinary everyday events, not thinking for one moment the next moment's breath would be their last.
They are executed with extreme malice aforethought, hatred so deadly that expectation of death by the perpetrators means nothing to them, in the belief that their actions are blessed and upheld by religious dictate to jihad in service to Islam. To the Israelis who chafe at the indignity of being refused by Muslims the right to ascend the Temple Mount to pray, and who believe it is possible to have a civil discussion that might lead to assent, the vicious denials by Islam itself represents finality.
To the Muslim authorities who bridle at the very thought of entry to their monopolistic holy site built over the remnants of another religion's sacred site -- something that represents a common practise in Islam which has always viewed it as its right to eradicate any symbols of a faith other than Islam, considering only Islam to have legitimate rights -- it is an unspeakable effrontery to suggest sharing anything that belongs solely to Islam.
Knowing this full well Israeli authorities have been constrained to disallow Jews entry to the Temple Mount other than silently and carefully and a select few permitted at a time in the hope that any Muslim backlash would not be forthcoming. And no matter how often Prime Minister Netanyahu assures his Arab audience that there are no plans forthcoming to alter the status quo, nothing stills the rage beating in the hearts of Muslims convinced of the evil of Judaic intent.
Labels: Islam, Jerusalem, Judaism, Palestinians, Security, Violence
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, November 20, 2014
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