They call it the Buraq Plaza, for it is from the Temple Mount that Muhammad, mounted on a winged horse with a human head named Buraq, is — according to Muslim legend — supposed to have ascended to Paradise, met the prophets, and had an audience with Allah. It is upon this legend, which is not even in the Qur’an, that the entire Muslim claim to Jerusalem (which is never mentioned in the Qur’an) is based.
“Palestinian proposal to UNESCO: Western Wall is part of al-Aqsa,” by Itamar Eichner, Ynet News, October 16, 2015:
A new proposal to establish that the Western Wall is part of al-Aqsa Mosque is set to be submitted by the Palestinians to a vote at UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) next week, Ynet learned Thursday.
The proposal states among other things that the Western Wall is part of al-Aqsa Mosque, and condemns the Israeli government for its call on citizens to bear arms because of the recent wave of terror attacks – presumably referring to statements by the mayors of Jerusalem and the police chief in Ashdod. The proposal was presented to the Executive Council of UNESCO, which has 58 member countries.
Since the Palestinians are not members of the committee, the six Arab states submitted the proposal on behalf of the Palestinians: Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. However, senior Israeli sources say that the Palestinians are simultaneously acting to move the proposal to the UNESCO plenum, in which they are recognized as a state.
Israel has been acting behind the scenes to persuade as many countries as possible to oppose the proposal, or at least to abstain, but it is likely that the proposal will be approved due to the automatic Muslim and Arab majority. Yedioth Ahronoth received a copy of the proposal, which reveals the main points:
1. To declare and confirm that the Western Wall is part of al-Aqsa Mosque, and is called Buraq Plaza (as the Palestinians call the Western Wall). The same applies to the Mughrabi Gate.
2. The Palestinians want the countries of the world to condemn Israel for calling on its citizens to bear arms in light of recent terror wave. The Palestinian argument is that this has led to the continuation of the cycle of violence and has caused multiple casualties.
3. The Palestinians seek to condemn recent actions by Israel and the IDF in Jerusalem, which is called “the occupied capital of Palestine” in the document.
4. It calls for a condemnation of Israel for the continued excavations near the Temple Mount and the Old City, in opposition to previous UNESCO decisions. The Palestinians condemn the Israeli refusal to allow UNESCO inspection teams to visit the Temple Mount.
5. Harsh condemnation of “Israeli aggression and illegal measures taken against the freedom of worship and access of Muslim to al-Aqsa Mosque and Israel’s attempts to break the status quo since 1967”. Israel is also accused of preventing clerics, sheikhs and preachers from accessing the mosque, in addition to Israeli security forces arresting many people at the mosques. Israel is also condemned for alleged incursions into the mosque.
6. Condemnation of the continued attacks on al-Aqsa Mosque by right-wing Jewish extremists. Palestinians call on Israel, “the occupying power”, to take measures to prevent provocations which violate the sanctity of the mosque, and call for an end to the “aggression” which fuels tensions in the area and among believers.
7. Condemnation of Israel’s decision to build a cable car in East Jerusalem and build “Beit Haliba” (an office building and a museum near the Western Wall), a few other buildings and an elevator near the wall.
8. Palestinians call for the confirmation and declaration that the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb (the supposed resting place of grave of Bilal ibn Rabah, a companion of the Prophet Mohammed) are part of Palestine.
9. Condemnation of alleged violence by Israeli settlers and Jewish extremists against Palestinians, including children, intended to harm the character of Hebron. The Palestinians urge “the occupying power” to prevent these attacks.
Israel’s Ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Shama Hacohen said in response that while Jews are being massacred on their way to pray, Palestinians are asking to strongly condemn violence and illegal measures that allegedly infringe on the religious freedom of Muslims….
somehistory says
This is another step in the things prophesied by God thru the prophet Ezekiel (chapters 37-39 specifically) as God is allowing things to progress. At the right time, He will put an end to the violence and bloodshed in which satan the devil takes so much delight.
somehistory says
I think that if I lived in Jerusalem or anywhere in Israel, I would carry a huge number of pigs feet around with me in a see-through bag.
somehistory says
The Western Wall was subjected to far worse than semantic indignities. During the more than one thousand years Jerusalem was under Muslim rule, the Arabs often used the Wall as a garbage dump, so as to humiliate the Jews who visited it.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Western_Wall.html
This shows they don’t actually care anything about the Wall. The whole thing is just to make more trouble and inflict pain on the Jews.
sinantara says
Isro Miraj is a national holiday here with services being held in all mosques. It is an very interesting story–and Christians should accept it because now there is proof that Jesus Christ exists and is in heaven–Muhammad met and spoke to him. It is just that Jesus inhabits only the second heaven. However, he may have moved up since.
somehistory says
There is a saying that comes to mind when I read such nonsense as you have written, but being too polite to write it, will just say you have provided enough bologna to feed all your moslim friends. Go and give it to them. I’ll reply no more to you, so don’t tire yourself writing more drivel.
sinantara says
ever heard of sarcasm?
somehistory says
Noooooo. I have never heard or read the word and never heard of the concept. Your post was not obviously such that anyone would know you weren’t some moslim trying to say what you said in all delusional seriousness.
Ever seen anyone put the sarc after their comment?
And personally, I don’t care for *jokes* about Christ either.
Veronica says
really? – who told you so ? – some people appear to accept whatever nonsense any kind of preacher or religious ‘leader’ tells them, with no apparent caution or intelligent skepticism – any of us can say or declare anything as ‘truth’ – would you believe that too because I said so ?
Your silly ignorance is showing loud & clear – your own need to be accepted and ‘belong’ is the problem – why don’t you sit down somewhere quiet and just consider whether there is any reason at all to believe any other human’s idea of what is ‘true’ – there is none – we are all searching, prayer might make you feel good but that does not make it true either. Just try to be a good person, within normal parameters of civilization and you are fine – but of course that might make you ostracized by your ‘group’ and that you are scared of – right ? see that is what is really the problem !!
Anthony says
@Sinantara, what do you mean by “here” and why do we, Christian, should take the words from Mo about Christ ? That He exists and in heaven, second heaven ? Why is Mo so authoritative over Christian’s belief ? i believe that Mo is dead and buried somewhere in Medina while Christ is alive and you want us to believe your holy man who also said that Jesus was just a prophet ? Enlighten me please
The Doctor says
The more important question is did Mo even exist? Robert Spencer in one of his books seems to have some pretty solid evidence to cast significant doubt that Paedophile Prophet even existed.
voegelinian says
Or carry a can of “Mohammedan Mace” — http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com/pig-oil-spray-500ml.html
somehistory says
Thanks, I didn’t know it existed.
I was thinking of a jar of pickled pigs feet. Heavy and hard enough to share the pain, and if the jar breaks and spills pork on the attacker…no fake paradise for him/her.
Huck Folder says
This should be entered into evidence, the zombie worshipers of mo farting at ‘the furthest mosque:
http://levant.tv/EN/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Muslims-praying1.jpg
abad says
So much Muslim nonsense, so little time to mete it out.
Rev g says
Muhammad and islam being carried aloft by Barak the magic donkey. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
ECAW says
Rev g – Are you really a Rev and is that a CofE type Rev? If so I would like to ask you about the attitudes of your colleagues.
cs says
This is so wrong and perverse, that I am fearing for the worse.
I just hope that some of the Jews that were into the BDS thing cease and desist.
All this is so insulting that my mind swirls.
R Cole says
Te Saudis are bombing the bezoosus out of Yemen – funny how silent the Left are on the subject. Without the Islamic go ahead – the guiding Muslim green light – that points them towards where they should express outrage – when compared to Israel bombing campaigns – the Left are being very good.
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Muslims are grabbing for everything – from control of the Western Wall to control of western governments – of places they have immigrated to. This is the first time in history Muslims are roundly being told – No, you can’t have it!
There is no ‘right’ to have it all!!
voegelinian says
I don’t see Muslims being “roundly told” they can’t have their supremacist goals. On the contrary, I see the entire West burying its collective head in the sand on the banks of De Nile — when it is not positively bending over backwards to defend Muslims.
Abigail Methon says
AND the Statue of Liberty is a Muslim Holy site! AND the Vatican is a Muslim Holy site! AND the whore houses in Amsterdam are a Muslim Holy site! Did I forget anything?
petey says
you forgot the ground zero mosque!
steve says
Touche! Brilliant!
Angemon says
My God, these people will try to steal anything that’s not nailed to the ground.
Islamic rules of ownership:
1 – If I have it, it’s mine
2 – If you have and I want it, it’s mine
3 – If at any point in time it was mine then it’s mine forever
خَليفة says
Yes, so true, and that “ownership forever” also applies to stupidity, ignorance, misogyny, pagan rituals ( especially circumambulation of the Kabbalah ), sexual perversions and scientific falsehoods.
Peggy says
My God, these people will try to steal anything that’s not nailed to the ground.
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If only they would stop at above ground. They steal the ground too. Two examples in Europe, Bosnia and Kosovo.
AnneM says
Just doing what their god, the devil, who was a “liar, thief, and a murderer from the beginning.”
Ian H says
Gosh – a picture of Mo!
Why does the horse have a bindi. Is it a Hindu horse?
Angry Aussie says
I was wondering who’s head was going to be lopped off for the pic of Mo. Interesting that old Islamic tiles and artworks showed him. Worshipping the prophet more than the God has always been a bit odd to me.
Jay Boo says
Allah is known to have “prayed upon Muhammad”.
Just one of many of MO’s slip ups.
voegelinian says
“It is upon this legend, which is not even in the Qur’an, that the entire Muslim claim to Jerusalem (which is never mentioned in the Qur’an) is based.”
Once again we see how Muslims use a double standard — they base major claims and behavior on extra-canonical Sunna (whether hadiths or siras or both), but when critics of Islam adduce various parts of the Sunna, the Muslim interlocutors du jour suddenly affect a Koran-only stance.
A new proposal to establish that the Western Wall is part of al-Aqsa Mosque…
The Al Aqsa Mosque itself is the result of a Mohammedan act of parasitical piracy — a practice Muslims repeated all over the world in the lands they concquered, whereby after they rampaged around like ISIS, slaughtering left and right, they would take over the holy sites of other cultures (whether Jewish, Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist), use their architecture and convert them into mosques — analogous to the parasitical voracity of an insect species that takes over the host body of a corpse.
Jay Boo says
The Muslim claim to Jerusalem would at first glance appear to be wildly ludicrous.
Muhammad mounted on a winged horse is supposed to have ascended to Paradise,
But seeing the actual drawing with a human head.
Wow! Maybe this warrants a closer examination.
Yes, Muhammad’s trip to “Paradise” is mounting another male with a human head.
This adds further complexity.
Rev g says
So MO rode to heaven on a donkey with a man’s head, and the donkey was hung like a horse, er, donkey?
That is one strange heaven!
Jay Boo says
Then again, I might be mistaken because — as Ian H pointed out — the human horse head has a bindi, so this head might actually be female.
What a great relief that it was a female versus a male human head on the horse, otherwise that would be sort of weird and implausible. But still, I wonder why the fairy tale horse has a rudder for a tail but no wings to flap.
Jay Boo says
The sad story of Muhammad’s donkey — Yafoor
Alice says
Amazing! HUMAN head AND Mo depicted. That’s unislamic…
Alice says
I suspect UNESCO will go along with them.
Voytek Gagalka says
Is there any correlation between “Barack” and “Buraq”? Both of them seem to be pronounced identically.
somehistory says
I have wondered that as well. Spelling is different, but that happens with a lot of names that have the same original source.
kinley says
Your name influences your beliefs and how you think. Growing up with the name “Barak”—the special winged horse that transported the prophet to heaven and back from Jerusalem—would have to influence your beliefs. Parents select names to guide and inspire their children. A boy named “Rocky” tends to be tough. A name is both an inspiration and a guide.
Anabel says
This is a 12th century fable developed from a dream that involved Muhammed’s night journey in the Koran in Sura 17:1: “Most glorified is the One who summoned His servant (Muhammad) during the night, from the Sacred Masjid (of Mecca) to the farthest place of prostration, whose surroundings we have blessed, in order to show him some of our signs. He is the Hearer, the Seer.”
At the time of Mohammed’s dream only two mosques existed one at Mecca and the other at Medina. Therefore the furthest place of prostration must be Medina.
Barak, Hebrew – lightning.
Buraq, Arabic – Lightning.
mortimer says
Anabel wrote: “This is a twelfth century fable.” It is.
This presentation at the UN is ill-advised. IT WILL INVITE COUNTERATTACK upon one of the WEAKEST of Islamic claims: the claim to Temple Mount.
When a presentation is made by HISTORIANS and QUALIFIED ISLAMOLOGISTS about the MYTHICAL nature of the claim to Temple Mount, the entire MUSLIM WORLD will go into a melt-down as many Muslims discover the SPECIOUSNESS of Islamic claims to historicity.
The Temple Mount was chosen by Caliph Abd al Malik as the CAPITAL of a NEW RELIGION THAT HE CREATED to draw Arabs away from their paganism! However, the Arabs were used to worshipping Allat (the goddess) and her son Dushara at their shrines in Petra and Madain Saleh in northern Arabia.
The Arabs refused to worship at Jerusalem because it was Jewish. They demanded an all-Arab religion and so Abd al Malik removed the Black Stone from Petra and relocated it in a new shrine in lower Arabia in a Podunk of a town that his ancestors came from. He then invented the story that Mohammed placed the Black Stone there.
Marty says
Mohammedans claim just about anywhere where they occupy as a
“holy site”.
Particularly if it is already occupied by Jews or Christians.
Islam is not a spiritual religion, it is a violent ideology that depends
on inbred, ill educated, fools to do its dirty work.
The dirty work can be summed up in one word. THEFT.
Islam is the only major culture which has produced no inventions
or achieved any human progress.
Even so called “Arabic numerals” are Indian Hindu numerals, stolen
when mohammedans invaded India.
Vivienne Havalant (Leijonhufvud) says
CAMEL SHIT to this but no doubt the UN will give since Saudi Arabia has just bribed the damn lot to get onto the Human Rights Council. mohmmet rising from the TEMPLE MOUNT like Christ! how bloody stoopid is this? What was the old goat on? HASH SHISH through a Hooka pipe, Islam just damn well made this up like the rest of the Korahn. MOSLEMS sending hate mail to me go ahead your days are numbered. THE end of Days as you lot believe in this stuff is about the final fall of ISLAM and believe me the Madhi is already here in the shape of Barak Hussein Obama and he’s about to be indicted by the US citizenry.
f c king says
I think the origin of Mo’s night flight was when he was caught mounting horse’s ass. A true barn yard felon.
Gail Griffin says
Pretty funny cartoon of Mo on a crazy human headed horse. Who did it? Should be published
OBoy says
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) (formerly Organization of the Islamic Conference) is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations which has membership of 57 states spread over four continents. The Organization is the collective voice of the Muslim world and ensuring to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world.
Thats why it is certain that the proprosal will be accepted. This majority of 57 states will always win, no matter what the rest of the members vote. So Islam always come out on top when the want or don’t want something. That’s why i think that the UN is not a really useful organization. its time that Israel gives up there membership. Israel is doomed by this way of voting. Its time the UN forbids the OIC as a voting blok in The UN itself.
steve says
This is absolutely delicious! I can see the UN agreeing with the Philistines, and Israel objecting. A fight breaking out in Jerusalem, with Israel winning control of the Temple Mount, razing it and erecting a new temple. Let the prophecies be fulfilled!
Erik says
In the 21st century we are seriously discussing a man riding a horse with a woman’s head and a peacock tail riding Ito heaven with twice the spread of sound.
Come on we live in the western world, not in fairytale land.
We overcame discussions like that centuries ago.
Do’nt put the evolution in the reverse.
PatnTrucks says
That winged human-headed white jackass Muhammed made up in a fantasy – the base relief statues were already in PERSIA in 800 B.C. that is 1500 years before Muhammed, so he makes up this fantasty flight to Jerusalem NEVER SETTING FOOT IN JERUSALEM EVER! So if we believe this CRAP, we’ll fall for anyting, oh we don’t believe it – the MUSLIMS do! Let’s see, hmmm, Muhammed hears of these old base relief sculptures, then imagines himself riding it to Jerusalem then it flies his imagining ass on his ass to 7 heavens. Oh POSH, OH bullshit! And plenty of it!