Jordans king says Amman preventing Judaization of holy sites in Jerusalem

[sabbat hunter]

http://www.timesofisrael.com/jordans-king-says-amman-preventing-judaization-of-holy-sites-in-jerusalem/

King Abdullah referred to the al-Aksa crisis and said that he speaks about this issue at every opportunity. "No voice on this issue is like the Jordanian voice," said the monarch who claimed that his country is "preventing the Judaization of the holy places."

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Jordanian-King-vows-not-to-give-up-501081

[COLGATE4]

1. Yeah, where do those pushy Jews get off

wanting the Wailing Wall to be Jewish, anyway?

[Igel]

4. "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"

No.

Xenophobia and scapegoating are.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Likely, the King is fecklessly trying to avoid a fundamentalist

challenge to his throne whether it's ISIS, Wahabi/Suni Muslims, or Al-Quaeda. No way can he expect to maintain the monarchy by being neutral.

[Igel]

3. Yes.

But couldn't he do it in a less xenophobic means?

Perhaps by saying since he jumps up and down while singing parts of the Quraan to tunes by Belletti in the shower for at least 25 minutes each day he's single-handedly preventing the rain of pineapple pork chops in Mecca that is the required precursor of the Umdillian invasion task force that can land there and only there?

You know, something that's less hate-inducing and just a bit more grounded in reality? Get them to direct their hatred and paranoia at pork chops and the ever unrepentant Umdillians?

[Kleveland]

5. Jordan's..... why? n/t

[NCDem777]

6. The Muslims only cared about Jerusalem when the Jews moved in

it was never mentioned in the Quran at all.

[hack89]

7. But is it mentioned in some of the earliest hadith

so we know that Jerusalem was a holy place from the very beginnings of Islam. Muslims initially prayed towards Jerusalem before Muhammad had a vision that said to pray towards Mecca.

[sabbat hunter]

8. But in terms

of a political holding, it was really a backwater town under the Muslim Caliphs, later on the Sultans of the Seljuk and Ottoman Empires.

[hack89]

9. The fighting is over religion not politics. Nt

[Mosby]

10. But the Islamic architectural developments in J'lem were political in nature.

The Umayyad dynasty built the dome of the rock, al-Aksa and other structures in the region to improve their standing and weaken the control of the arabian caliphs in the Ummah.