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2019-08-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Waqf calls for mass prayers at Temple Mount to stop Jews visiting on Tisha B’av

[IsraelTimes] Islamic body wants other Jerusalem mosques to shut Sunday in bid to boost attendance at al-Aqsa; Jewish day of mourning this year coincides with Moslem Eid al-Adha holiday.

The Moslem religious body that manages the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City has called for all other mosques in the area to shut Sunday to boost attendance at the flash point holy site in order to block Jewish visitors from going there on Tisha B’Av.

Sunday marks the start of Eid al-Adha, an Islamic holiday commemorating the end of the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as the Koranic story of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael. This year, the start of Eid al-Adha coincides with the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of the temples and other disasters in Jewish history.

In a letter Friday, the Moslem Waqf trust, which oversees the site, called for the closure of all mosques in Jerusalem on Sunday except for the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, where it said all prayers should be held.

In a statement, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammed Hussein, former grand mufti of Jerusalem Ekrima Sabri and senior Waqf official Abdel Azeem Sahlab announced that "all mosques in Jerusalem will be closed and that blessed Eid al-Adha prayers will take place in the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque."

They said the move comes in response to the Israel Police’s decision to "evaluate" whether to allow Jews on the Temple Mount on Sunday. "The people of Jerusalem and its surroundings will stand together in the face of the ambitions of the settlers," they added.

Police were set to discuss over the weekend whether to allow Jews to visit the Temple Mount on Sunday. A police front man confirmed that security forces would assess whether to all permit "visitors," including Jews, on the Temple Mount, without providing further details.

Bassem Abu Labda, a Waqf official, said in a phone call that Israel would be "wise" to bar Jews from the Temple Mount on Sunday.

Israeli authorities traditionally close the Temple Mount to non-Moslems during Islamic holidays, though in June police allowed Jewish visitors onto the site on Jerusalem Day, which fell this year during the final 10 days of Ramadan.

Hundreds of Paleostinians clashed with police at the holy site to protest the entry of Jews on Jerusalem Day, which marks Israel’s unification of the city after capturing East Jerusalem and the Old City from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-10 00:15|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 In 2016, India froze the assets and terminated land parcels to the Sunni Waqf Board. For some reason, the Supreme Court overruled the order. In time, we shall remove this word from the annals of public administration. They just grab a lot of land.

The parallel to the Babri Masjid issue is an oft discussed topic of between Indian and Israeli PMs.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-10 07:28|| 2019-08-10 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Never heard of Waqf before. Are they like the Muslamic version of Rotarians?

Posted by jpal 2019-08-10 08:32|| 2019-08-10 08:32|| Front Page Top

#3 As I understand it, jpal, the Waqf is a section of the Jordanian Ministry of Sacred Properties, tasked by treaty following the 1967 war to administer the Temple Mount... or at least the Muslim parts thereof.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-10 13:27|| 2019-08-10 13:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Or rather, the Waqf in Israel. I don’t know anything about the Indian one.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-10 13:28|| 2019-08-10 13:28|| Front Page Top

#5 If mass prayer was gonna do anything about the Juice, it would have happened long before now. Y'all need to get hobbies.

Posted by SteveS 2019-08-10 13:35|| 2019-08-10 13:35|| Front Page Top

#6 The prayers ain't worth fucko, it's the 'mass' that they mean to exploit.

And the literal meaning of the word waqf is ‘detention’. In the legal context, waqf means detention of a property so that its produce or income may always be available for religious or charitable purposes.

When a waqf is created, the property is detained - ‘tied up’ forever and thereafter becomes non-transferable. It is a concept rooted in the medieval system of muslim land grabbing in kafir lands by claiming it for the use of Allan. The implicit idea is that the ownership of dedicated property is taken away from the person/association of persons/organization making the waqf and transferred and detained by Allan. The first wakf was obviously made by muhammad himself.

Very important fact to know. The waqf, like islamic finance is a part of legal islamism and the first overtures of islamism in a country, when the muslim population has grown a bit, is the establishment and registration of a waqf board or committee. Every city in your country will have endowed properties allotted out to registered muslim communities under a waqf board. It starts with a masjid, then expands into quarters for the caretakers and mullahs, then to the attached madarsa, cooperative housing, hospitals and so on, until they own thousands of acres of unevenly distributed property in your country. On every lease, the term waqf is mentioned, meaning it's a religious endowment and protected by the liberal nation's secular rights. Untouchable.

The only way to beat it is extralegal means - use state backed landgrabbers and muscle to tie up the land in litigation forever, or violate/dissolve the precious secular nature of your constitutions.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-10 15:27|| 2019-08-10 15:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Oops, I forgot to insert allah for allan in the title. Trying to be as clever as Fred.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-10 15:29|| 2019-08-10 15:29|| Front Page Top

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