Post by Teddy Bear on Feb 9, 2007 18:56:50 GMT
In a BBC article today about the Palestinians losing their heads (again) about the need for Israel to strengthen a walkway that partially collapsed a few years ago.
"The violence flared over the digging work, which protesters say threatens the foundations of the al-Aqsa mosque - Islam's third holiest site."
The BBC have made a point to stress it's Islam's 3rd holiest site. What makes it holy? It's where Muslims CLAIM Mohammed rose to heaven from. Now this place is not mentioned in the Koran AT ALL - in fact Jerusalem itself does not appear in the Koran.
Might the reason they call it the Third Holiest Site have something to do with the fact that Temple Mount, on which Al-Aqsa is built, is the Jews 1st Holiest site, where King Solomon built the second temple and is mentioned at least 70 times in the bible. The Wailing or Western Wall is one of the remaining walls of the temple. This is the same temple that Jesus drove out the money lenders in the New Testament.
If Mohammed would have bounced his way to heaven they would probably have called The Church of the Nativity the 4th holiest site, and then gone on to include every important place to other religions as important to them to lay claim to it.
So how do the BBC make this clear?
"The compound containing the mosque is also revered by Jews as the site of their biblical temples. "
It's revered.
Can you imagine if there was something similar in Mecca, would the BBC just pass it off as 'revered' or would they stress,as they have here, that it was their HOLIEST SITE.
At least this time they give an Israeli spokesmen the opportunity to express his views on this conflict
"The excavations, which began on Tuesday, are a prelude to the construction of a new walkway leading to the compound.
Israeli authorities say the work is needed after a centuries-old walkway partially collapsed in 2004.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the works posed no threat to the mosque, about 60m (200ft) away.
"The tragedy is you have... people out there with very hateful, extremist agendas, who come and start with all this very extreme and hateful language about the Jews wanting to destroy wanting to destroy the mosques and the Jews wanting to build a synagogue there instead of a mosque and it's all just... rubbish," he told the BBC. "
"The violence flared over the digging work, which protesters say threatens the foundations of the al-Aqsa mosque - Islam's third holiest site."
The BBC have made a point to stress it's Islam's 3rd holiest site. What makes it holy? It's where Muslims CLAIM Mohammed rose to heaven from. Now this place is not mentioned in the Koran AT ALL - in fact Jerusalem itself does not appear in the Koran.
Might the reason they call it the Third Holiest Site have something to do with the fact that Temple Mount, on which Al-Aqsa is built, is the Jews 1st Holiest site, where King Solomon built the second temple and is mentioned at least 70 times in the bible. The Wailing or Western Wall is one of the remaining walls of the temple. This is the same temple that Jesus drove out the money lenders in the New Testament.
If Mohammed would have bounced his way to heaven they would probably have called The Church of the Nativity the 4th holiest site, and then gone on to include every important place to other religions as important to them to lay claim to it.
So how do the BBC make this clear?
"The compound containing the mosque is also revered by Jews as the site of their biblical temples. "
It's revered.
Can you imagine if there was something similar in Mecca, would the BBC just pass it off as 'revered' or would they stress,as they have here, that it was their HOLIEST SITE.
At least this time they give an Israeli spokesmen the opportunity to express his views on this conflict
"The excavations, which began on Tuesday, are a prelude to the construction of a new walkway leading to the compound.
Israeli authorities say the work is needed after a centuries-old walkway partially collapsed in 2004.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the works posed no threat to the mosque, about 60m (200ft) away.
"The tragedy is you have... people out there with very hateful, extremist agendas, who come and start with all this very extreme and hateful language about the Jews wanting to destroy wanting to destroy the mosques and the Jews wanting to build a synagogue there instead of a mosque and it's all just... rubbish," he told the BBC. "