The Temple Mount

Sheikh Kamal Riyan called on Jews to “observe Jewish Law” and not visit the Temple Mount. Yesterday's disturbances on the Temple Mount appear to have been sparked by printed announcements by Jewish groups seeking to gain access to the holy area to pray.

This epicenter of disagreement between the Arab and Jewish People is imbecilic. The Dome of the Rock built a generation after Mohammed the Prophet brought the Koran to the world was erected as a remembrance to the Jewish Prophets Dovid and his son Shlomo who built the First Temple 1500 years before–for this reason the Dome of the Rock is not a Mosque.

Since the destruction 2000 years ago of the Second Temple the Rabbis decreed against the Jewish People entering the Temple Mount least they might, while in a state of impurity unintentionally step on the place called the Holies of Holies where was house the Ten Commandments.

What could be more impure that the strife of war brother against holy brother skewing the words of the prophets to obtain political gain?

The key to repairing this core issue is found in our two prophetic books the Torah and the Koran; when we can sit together with mutual respect for our books which is the foundation of our people–then there will be peace in the Middle East.

There is no word in Hebrew or in Arabic for the concept of Religion.