Jerusalem Mufti denies Temple Mount ever housed the Jewish Temple
This is what Islam does. No other religion has validity or rights. The first temple existed a thousand years before Muhammad beheaded an entire tribe of Jews.
Perhaps Islamic hatred of all other religions stems from the reality that Islam so little resembles a real religion — one that promotes life and the good. So they must falsify and extinguish all other belief systems.
The idea that the Temple Mount never housed a Jewish temple (Solomon’s temple) is as disgusting and vicious a lie as their insistence that Jesus Christ was a Muslim prophet.
This hatred is the fabric of Islam. They built a mosque directly on top of the first Jewish temple — look. The Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa are the very manifestation of Islamic replacement theology.
Islamic “Replacement Theology” in its most extreme form, courtesy of an Abbas-appointed cleric.
“Jerusalem mufti: Temple Mount never housed Jewish Temple,” by Ilan Ben Zion, The Times of Israel, October 25, 2015 (thanks to Robert Spencer):
Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein says Al-Aqsa Mosque has been atop disputed holy site ‘since creation of the world’
The grand mufti of Jerusalem, the Muslim cleric in charge of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, said Sunday that there’s never been a Jewish temple atop the Temple Mount, and that the site has been home to a mosque “since the creation of the world.”
Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein said in an Arabic interview with Israel’s Channel 2 that the site, considered the third holiest in Islam and the holiest to Jews, was a mosque “3,000 years ago, and 30,000 years ago” and has been “since the creation of the world.”
“This is the Al-Aqsa Mosque that Adam, peace be upon him, or during his time, the angels built,” the mufti said of the 8th-century structure commissioned by Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan.
He vehemently denied that there has ever been a Jewish shrine atop the Temple Mount, despite rich archaeological and textual evidence to the contrary, including from Muslim sources. The 10th-century Muslim historian Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Shams al-Din al-Muqaddasi wrote in his description of Syria and Palestine that “in Jerusalem is the oratory of David and his gate; here are the wonders of Solomon and his cities,” and that the foundations of the Al-Aqsa Mosque “were laid by David.”
A guide to the Haram al-Sharif, as the Temple Mount is known in Arabic, published by the Muslim Waqf in 1924 mentioned the presence of two Jewish temples atop the Jerusalem compound in antiquity.
At least four inscriptions from Herod’s Temple, destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE, attest to the presence of a Jewish temple atop the 37-acre platform he had engineered over 2,000 years ago.
Jerusalem moufties have a habit of denying Jewish rights to the land. Maybe, like the final solution co-author, he’ll diamond encrust the gold roof his predecessor made to attack Judaism.
As the Rav used to say: “Not only stupid, but ugly too”.
The Mufti would make a great ‘goat’ for a game of Afghan polo.