Mosques were closed in Israel today: Muslim leaders wanted as many people as possible to come to the Temple Mount to provoke this confrontation.
“Three Killed, Over 200 Wounded As Muslim Rioters Rage Over Temple Mount,” by Aaron Klein, Breitbart, July 21, 2017:
JERUSALEM — Three Palestinians were reported killed and over 200 were wounded in clashes with Israeli security forces in Jerusalem and the West Bank as Palestinian leaders urged a day of protest purportedly against Israel’s decision to put metal detectors at entrances to the Temple Mount.
Protest leaders, including top Palestinian officials, claim the metal detectors are part of an Israeli conspiracy to hamper Muslim worship at the Mount, the holiest site in Judaism and a site considered holy in Islam.
The activists and Palestinian officials seemingly fail to note that Israel’s new security measures were put into place in direct response to the murderous Palestinian terrorist attack at the Mount last Friday in which three assailants somehow smuggled weapons onto the site. The metal detectors will protect all visitors to the Mount, including Muslim worshipers.
The activists protesting at the Temple Mount ignore that metal detectors have been in place for years for Jewish and Christian worshipers accessing the Western Wall. And Muslims on the Hajj pilgrimage pass through metal detectors at airports and border crossings.
As a result, Israeli security forces erected checkpoints at main entrances to Jerusalem and are blocking several roads leading to the Temple Mount area. Some 3,000 police forces were deployed to Jerusalem’s Old City in addition to five Israel Defense Forces battalions that have been put on standby.
The Times of Israel reported on Friday’s ensuing deadly clashes:
The Palestinian Authority’s official Wafa news agency said a 17-year-old was killed in Ras al-Amud outside the Old City after being shot by a “settler,” though no shooter was identified; the term is often used by Palestinians to refer to any Israeli out of uniform. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the teen as Muhammad Mahmoud Sharaf from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
A second person was reportedly shot in the A-Tur area of east Jerusalem and died of his wounds at Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem. The third death reportedly occurred in Abu Dis in the West Bank, near Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Over 200 people were reported injured in the clashes across Jerusalem and the West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, adding that the injuries were incurred from live bullets, rubber-coated bullets, burning and tear gas inhalation.
There were reports of other clashes between Israeli forces and rioters across eastern sections of Jerusalem and in several West Bank locations, including checkpoints.
The Jerusalem Post further reported:
According to Palestinian reports, 10 residents were arrested in east Jerusalem, among them were Fatah officials.
Some 400 Muslims attended the prayer next to the Gate of the Tribes (Bab al-Asbat), the place that sparked the violence earlier this week. Before the prayer, the leader called on the attendees to be patient, and said that “the Jews, that are occupying Palestine, are on their way to hell.”
Ynet posted an update on the number of injured:
The Palestinian Red Crescent says 41 Palestinians were taken to hospitals or clinics with injures from live fire, rubber bullets and beatings. About 150 Palestinians were treated for tear gas inhalation.
Four Israeli police officers have been reportedly injured in the clashes after being struck with stones and flares.
The Palestinian charge that Israel is hampering Muslim access to the Temple Mount is contradicted by facts on the ground. Israel allows the Jordanian-controlled Waqf to serve as custodians of the Mount and grants Muslim worshipers access to the site 24 hours per day, seven days a week with the exception of rare instances of security threats….
Dave Flang says
God proved his love in this verse.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
How has Allah proven his love?
john spielman says
allah has no love only hatred for everyone including the muslims he has deceived into believing that he -Allah is God, when in reality allah is Satan, the deceiver and enemy of our souls!
Sons of Liberty says
Exactly ! Muhammad is Satan’s prophet sent to keep the followers of Islam in darkness.
Divine Justice says
He was the altered ego of Muhammad, according to the Iranian Islamic scholar at alisina.org.
Westman says
It’s difficult to describe a sadist in terms of love. He calls himself merciful and describes, with glee, his tortures for those who don’t worship him.
musalmaanmasala says
David Flang,
Oh yes allah has. Allah so loved the world that he made Mohammed a rapist, murderer, looter, pedophile show the way to his followers how to take the lives of other human beings while they get ever lasting life along with everlasting screws with ever recycling houris.
Steve Klein says
Metal detectors are intolerable.
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musalmaanmasala says
These buggers are scared of metal because they are stock piling arms and ammo in the Temple Mount. This has happened in India too. Suggest the Israeli army to conduct a raid to flush out the arsenal before more harm is done.
Tomorrow these buggers will cause a riot at airports too saying metal detectors are “unislamic”
john spielman says
ok; if muslims won’t behave peacefully on the temple mount, then tear down the structures that are causing the problem; the al asqa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, and rebuild the Jewish Temple
Dee Miller says
Israel had their chance at the 67 war…to do so now would start a global holy war..
gravenimage says
There is *already* an unending Jihad against Israel, in case you have not noticed. *They* are not the ones who have started a ‘holy war’.
DJ says
Oh the irony!
Metal detectors were first introduced throughout world airports in response to Palestinian terrorism in the 70s.
Since then I have nicknamed them Yasser’s in a wry tribute to terrorist number one Yasser Arafat.
Ain’t Karma a female dog?
gravenimage says
Muslims riot at Temple Mount, 3 killed, over 200 wounded
……………..
Damn barbarians.
And the proximate “cause” of this? That Israelis wanted to make sure no one was bringing weapons in. Can’t have that–it’s “un-Islamic”.
somehistory says
moslum scum want the freedom to ruin life and freedom for everyone else. To make infidels go through metal detectors, have to undress, take off shoes, leave shampoo, nail clippers, toothpaste, laptops, and any number of other things home in order to fly on a plane is something in which moslums delight.
It has been shown that moslums get special treatment at airports when moslums are the reason others must arrive at airports several hours ahead of flight time so they can be searched and questioned.
That is what they want, and demand, and riot for, everywhere…special treatment so they can smuggle weapons inside where infidels gather, and smuggle them out of their barracks to kill all others being put through searches and detainment.
Much like what Jesus Christ said about satan the devil. Speaking to His disciples, Jesus said,, “satan has demanded you men to sift you as wheat.” (Luke 31-32)
These sons of demons make demands in order to have ready victims, just as satan demands. When all their barracks are destroyed, and islum is no more, there will be no more rioting for the devil.
abad says
The Seed of Abraham and Ishmael(TM) can stay out of Israel forever.
Moslems can keep their Saudi Arabia and Mecca as their “holy place.”
Incidentally, the whole Islam <– Abraham and Ishmael is not a Biblical teaching, it is a Muslim teaching. Nowhere is Islam mentioned in the Old Testament as being from Abraham. Instead, this is something Mohammad made up.
DP111 says
Why is Israel preventing Muslims to take weapons into the Temple Mount? To prevent Muslims storing weapons in a mosque is denying Muslims their religious freedom.
moeped says
It’s racist and islamophobiiiic. It’s un-American! Diversity is our strength.
Dan says
To paraphrase an famous quote:
Ich bin ein Israeli.
No Fear says
How can installing metal detectors at the Mount “hamper Muslim worship” at the Mount?
Lydia says
Exactly. I suppose because part of their ‘worship’ involves swords and bloodshed.
But…. Shhh! They don’t want anyone to know!
Guy Forester says
No surprise here. The PA was looking for a reason to create more turmoil in Israel and get into the MSM as “victims” again.
At some point, the current state sponsors of terror (Russia, PRC and their proxies: Pakistan, Iran, DPRK, Cuba, Venezuela, and a few others) will either lose control (like we did with the mujahideen in Afghanistan) of the proxies or they will think they have the right juxtaposition of events to start a real war. This will probably get real ugly some day in the near future. Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Militarist Japan did not have a good grasp of their strengths and weaknesses v the US and UK.
Unfortunately, I really do not see who else besides the US that really has the economic and military strength to stand up to these bullies this time around. Again, this could get real ugly as many countries hate the US and Israel for our freedoms and economic successes. Western Europe squandered millions of lives of good men and women in two preventable wars. They have little left to fight with and have even less will to defend their countries, cultures, and peoples.
billybob says
I don’t understand this last phrase…”Western Europe squandered millions of lives of good men and women in two preventable wars. They have little left to fight with and have even less will to defend their countries, cultures, and peoples.”
Why do you say that WWI and WWII were preventable? Why do you say “they have little left to fight with” when whole new generations have arisen since these two wars, long ago now?
Guy Forester says
BB: Thanks for your comment.
WW1: There was no imperative for Germany to attack Belgium and France. The leaders of Western Europe were living in a fantasy land regarding the effects of then current technology on a large scale war. I recommend reading Barbara Tuchman’s Guns of August. The number of lives wasted in the brutal invasion of Belgium and the battles of Verdun and the Somme by both sides is appalling. When so many of your young generation are lost, that will have a severe long term affect on your population, and not just in numbers.
WW2: After the previous war, I certainly understand everyone’s reluctance to get into another one. However, the failure of the western powers to stand up to Mussolini and Hitler when they were stoppable led to another round of devastating losses. You then had two generations of young people killed off. Young people get married and make babies, dead ones don’t. Young people go on to lead in politics, sciences, and the arts. What you had left after these two wars were many disillusioned or damaged people, fewer people willing to stand up and fight for something, and probably a lot of cynicism regarding the political leaders. Most of Western Europe’s population growth is from the non-western immigrants and so-called refugees.
You currently have leaders that refuse to identify and resist the threats to the survival of their respective country and culture (May and Merkel are examples), an electorate that continues to vote in these imbeciles (maybe they do not understand where the trends are taking them or they just want to hear about platitudes and handouts). Your governments have disarmed you, vilify and prosecute you if you speak against things like rape and FGM, and they tell the populace that their own flag and soldiers in uniform are threatening to the new citizens.
The ships, tanks, and planes of today are far more capable than those of WWII. Yet it took everything the UK had to simply get the Falklands back from Argentina. The military forces of western Europe are so small today, they cannot really defend the homeland well.
Did that help? Basically, Western Europe seems to be melting away like a chocolate bar on hot Tarmac. The few people that recognize the dangers and that are willing to speak and/or act to defend their homelands are overwhelmed by animosity from the left and apathy from the middle. Don’t feel bad, the US seems to be trying to follow this trend. Hopefully enough will stand up to stop this madness.
billybob says
Thank you for replying. While I agree with your assessment of Western Europe as it exists today, I would say you overreach to trace its current state back to the two world wars – with the exception of Germany, who still suffers from a massive guilt complex and allows this to control their reactions today. I do not agree with your original thesis that the two world wars weakened the West to the extent that the effects continues to this day.
“What you had left after these two wars were many disillusioned or damaged people, fewer people willing to stand up and fight for something, and probably a lot of cynicism regarding the political leaders.”
One might argue the opposite, that the two great wars and the immediate aftereffect killed off the weakest and only the fittest survived to father subsequent generations. We have been through 3 generations since the end of WW2. Very few who were alive back then remain today. The wars brought unprecedented leaps in science and technology, and with time enough to heal and grow, unprecedented expansion of both populations and economies.
I was born shortly after WW2. I have seen so many changes in the social consciousness come and go that when I look back at it, it is dizzying. So many fads, modes of thought, ideas come and gone. The only constant is constant change. I find the things I learn about on YouTube these days completely alien and foreign to the way things were decades ago. The major concerns of today – Leftist progressivism, Islamization of the West, and the current invasion of Europe, were unforeseeable and unimaginable decades ago. They simply could not have happened back when I was young. With the exception of Germany’s war guilt still negatively affecting their decision making today, all other Western nations only grew stronger. I blame what is happening today on a generational fad, which will pass eventually to be replaced by some other fad, and on it will go until the end of time.
Raja says
Billybob,
You are right about the whole new generation not wanting another war like ww1 or ww2.
There is still a sizable population willing to die for ideals of liberty etc as freedom always comes for a price. It takes only a nut to bring about a sea change in human minds.
Islam the evil ideology(from devil) must be exterminated from the face of the earth,
DP111 says
My own opinion is that it is unfair of Israel to prohibit or deter weapons being smuggled in to a mosque. I mean, that is what a mosque is for . Israel is deliberately preventing Muslims to carry out their religious obligations.
gravenimage says
Grimly hilarious, DP111.
Anne Smith says
DJ and Some history are absolutely right. We have suffered intolerable interference in our travelling which has been brought about entirely by the Muslims attacking lanes, trains, concert halls, museums, and everywhere where normal people gather in numbers.
We have to arrive early at airports and stand for hours in queues to have our bodies searched, belts removed, shoes and socks taken off. All because of Muslims.
It is long overdue to bring in passenger profiling. Good luck to the Israelis, I say. They know what they are dealing with. Amazing how Muslims seem able to riot at the drop of a hat. They do this in UK now whenever they are confronted with people who disagree with them or march in support of UK values.
They have very childish and immature reactions to authority, similar to spoilt brats throwing a tantrum.
Up the metal detectors, I say and let’s have specially slow ones at the airports for our Muslim cultural enrichers.
Anne Smith says
Correction – attacking planes, not lanes, although they have attacked traffic lanes too.
Baucent says
The fury of the Arab reaction to the metal detectors seems somewhat out of balance. It doesn’t not restrict their access to the site or attendance at the mosque. so what’s behind the anger? Could it be they had a plan to smuggle arms and munitions onto the site for an staged uprising later on? Could these metal detectors be now frustrating that plan? That would explain their fury.
Proud Anti-Islam says
The Temple Mount is Jewish, NOT Islam. End of story. Islam is a cult of complete lies. Allah is not the God of Heaven. Allah is the moon god and that is satan the devil from hell.
TH says
The Temple Mount is a fake Muslim holy site. It is supposed to be so due to the fabricated “night journey” of Mahommed on the winged mule. Even his favourite wife Aisha stated that he had not left his bed. It is another way of appropriating what is not theirs.
joe masry says
I THINK THE AQSA MOSQUE SHOULD BE TURNED INTO A CHURCH OR A JEWISH TEMPLE. AFTER ALL THE CHURCH OF AGIA SOPHIA IS TURNED INTO A MOSQUE JUST BECAUSE TURKEY OCCUPIES CONSTANTINOPLE . IF THIS GIVES TURKEY THAT AUTHORITY, ISRAEL SHOULD DO THE SAME.
Leon says
hmmm… only 3 killed and only 200 wounded? that’s a shame…so few…
moeped says
This will force the brilliant minds of the ummah to once again use their superior and god-given intellect to bring the world revolutionary technological advancements, just as they did hundreds of years ago, before they were persecuted by the infidel.
What am I referring to? Phasers and lasers of course, undetectable by loser metal detectors.