Prominent religious figures and senior officials warned Sunday of Israeli plot to destroy and judaize Al Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, demanding an immediate action from the Muslim world to prevent the Israeli harm. The warning came in response to the Israeli Public Security Minister Tzachi Hanegbi's warning that extremist Jews might be plotting a deadly attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque to kill the Middle East peace process stone-dead and derail Israeli proposed pullout of the Gaza Strip Palestinian officials say the current Israeli government is using the extremist Jews to put its grip on the Mosque . "The Israeli government is hiding behind the extremist Jews
they are using them to control the mosque, so if anything happens to the Mosque, they will receive the blame instead of the Jewish government," a Palestinian official told The Jerusalem Times.
The highest Muslim authority in the holy land, Sheikh Ikrema Sabri, said the Israeli warning is driven by ill intentions to put the holy place under the occupation grip and not out of Israeli concerns at the mosque's safety. "A case in point is Israel 's deployment of more troops to the mosque after Al-Ibrahimi incident, but occupation authorities denied Muslims access to it and imposed stringent and humiliating search measures," Sabri told IslamOnline.net. |