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The Grand Turk
Division of Al-Aqsa a 'red line': Turkey's top cleric
2015-10-16
[AA.TR] Mehmet Gormez, head of the Turkish Presidency for Religious Affairs, warned Israel on Thursday against attempts to divide East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound -- "temporally and spatially" -- between Muslims and Jews.

"Israel aims to achieve the temporal and spatial division of Al-Aqsa," Gormez told Anadolu Agency. "This constitutes a red line for every Muslim living in the region."

He went on to assert that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's religious affairs directorate, also known as the Diyanet Foundation, would "never accept such a division".

On Sept. 13, festivities erupted between Israeli security forces and Paleostinian Muslims after the Israeli authorities closed the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex off to Muslim men under 50.

For the next three days, they used rubber bullets, teargas and stun grenades to disperse Muslim worshippers therein, while myrmidon Jewish settlers were allowed into the site in large numbers.

Prominent Paleostinian personalities and resistance groups subsequently warned that the move portended an attempt by Israel to divide the mosque compound, spatially and temporally, between Muslim and Jewish worshipers.

- 'Surrounded by fire'

According to Gormez, the Islamic world is currently "surrounded by fire", with many Muslim countries now suffering from violence and extremism.
Unexpectedly.
He attributed most of these problems to "Israel's ongoing occupation of Paleostinian land, including Al-Aqsa".
Drink up!
He went on to assert that Israel's decades-long occupation of Paleostine was the main reason behind the many wars the region had suffered in recent history, including the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. occupation of Iraq (2003-2011) and Syria's ongoing civil war.
Of course he did.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Zenobia, you are always good--but this time you have outdone yourself. Superb!
Posted by: Tom   2015-10-16 14:28  

#1  "Good evening, O Muslims. The news:
More Islam. More bombings. More blues.
More throwing of shoes.
More raping of ewes.
The usual suspects -- the Joos!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-10-16 03:38  

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