And Obama is silent…
A crime against history, humanity and civilization
March 8, 2015
What
is it that compels the hundreds of millions of Muslims who slavishly
accept Koranic injunctions to so eagerly be willing to destroy and
desecrate all ancient and priceless artifacts of non-Muslims.
We hear during every ghastly atrocity committed by Muslims the Islamic war cry - Allahu Akbar - which doesn't mean "God is Great" as most folks think it does.
No, it is the Muslim triumphalist cry that, "Allah is Greater." This is the Islamo-Nazis, "Allah uber alles" supremacist pronouncement to the world just as it was the German Nazis, "Deutschland uber alles."
Happening
now throughout those parts of the Middle East under ISIS occupation or
influence, Muslim hordes in Syria are destroying archaeological
treasures, including Byzantine mosaics and Greek and Roman statues. In
Iraq, ISIS has destroyed several Jewish Biblical tombs such as those of
Ezra and Jonah.
A Muslim topples a statue in a museum in Mosul
ISIS,
the so-called Islamic State, has begun destroying ancient statues and
cultural treasures in Iraq because Islam considers them graven images
and idols, which is against the Islamic faith.
Destruction
of world heritage sites by fanatical Islamo-Nazis is taking place all
over the world, including the bulldozing of the ancient city in Iraq of Nimrud.
Remember the 2,500 year old statues of Buddha that the Muslim Taliban destroyed with artillery?
And in Mali, a famous library containing priceless ancient manuscripts has been torched by Muslim gangs while in Libya more ancient sites are threatened by ISIS.
But
another predominately Muslim entity is guilty of a systematic crime
against history, religion, humanity and civilization and has got away
with it for years.
There
has been hardly a murmur of protest from a hypocritical and
international mainstream media or by archaeologists and heads of state
around the non-Muslim world. Such is the pandering to the Arabs who call
themselves Palestinians who have been on an orgy of desecration and
vandalism.
I
am referring to the Temple Mount, the holiest Jewish site in the world,
which was foolishly given away to the Islamic Waqf immediately after
Israel liberated the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967 from 19 long years of
illegal Jordanian occupation.
This
breathtakingly reckless act was made by Israel's Moshe Dayan as a
gesture of friendship in the hope that the Muslims and Palestinian Arabs
would reciprocate and live in peace with the Jewish state. We know,
alas, how that vain offer has turned out.
As Giulio Meotti, a journalist with the Italian newspaper, Il Foglio, wrote:
"The
Waqf is now attempting to deliberately destroy all archaeological
evidence of Jewish claims to this site, while using terror and
intimidation to impose its exclusive claim to the Temple Mount.
"The
Waqf has removed every sign of ancient Jewish presence at the site. At
the entrance, a Waqf sign says ‘The Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard and
everything in it is Islamic property.'"
The
Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the most sacred site of the Jewish people
and faith; the very place that the Jewish King David built the sanctuary
for the Ark of the Covenant and made his capital some 3,000 years ago
after moving it from Hebron - another of the four holy Jewish cities.
It
is where his son, King Solomon, built the first Temple, destroyed by
the Babylonians and where Herod later built the Second Temple but
destroyed by the Romans.
The very name, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim in Hebrew, was always the source of Jewish yearning and prayer down the dark centuries of exile and persecution.
For
those Jews not living in the ancestral homeland, (and there were always
Jewish communities in the land maintaining what numbers they could
under successive alien occupations) the prayers expressed the longing to
return and rebuild the eternal Jewish capital. It is not by accident
that wherever in the world a synagogue stands, it faces Jerusalem.
Tragically,
Israeli leaders have been terrified of upsetting the Muslim world and
this very timidity and fear allows for triumphalist and tyrannical Islam
to commit unspeakable crimes against civilization and history while
daily butchering Christians, Jews, Yazidis, as well as fellow Muslims.
Just
as the followers of the "religion of peace" ruthlessly and freely
commit vandalism and desecration on a scale unseen since the Nazi era,
so the Palestinian Muslims, with the full complicity and encouragement
of the Palestinian Authority have been and are desecrating, with
ruthless and relentless destruction, Jewish and Christian artifacts and
antiquities.
When
the Moslem authorities, the Waqf, were so foolishly given permission to
control the Temple Mount in 1967 they soon began using heavy bulldozers
to dig up the ground in order to build yet another mosque, in addition
to the two mosques Muslim conquerors had built over the site of the two
biblical Jewish Temples.
Despite
Israeli protests, they are deliberately desecrating tons of precious
archaeologically rich soil. One archaeologist described the disturbed
sites as "an archaeological crime" and an assault upon Jewish and
Christian history.
Now,
funded by the City of David Foundation, Israeli and other archeologists
and volunteers desperately search through the tons of earth and rubble
unceremoniously dumped by the Muslim Authorities in the nearby Kidron
Valley.
The
intrepid archaeologists and their helpers have uncovered thousands of
rare and important artifacts from the First and Second Temple periods,
as well as from Roman and Byzantine periods, among them a rare bulla
dating from the First Temple period.
But
each precious find, ripped and torn by Palestinian Muslims from its up
to 3,000 year old location upon the Temple Mount, fatally compromises
what each item can tell us: a most grievous and barbarous sin against
history and civilization.
The
catastrophe is continuing even now as the Muslim Waqf remorselessly and
gleefully destroys as much evidence as they can of Judeo-Christian
civilization and religion and history upon Jerusalem's Temple Mount.
In
stark contrast to the Muslim contempt for archaeological proof of any
non-Muslim artifacts or historical evidence, which is inconvenient to
their "ideology wrapped in a religion," the discoveries by Israeli and
other archaeologists at ancient Biblical sites continues to amaze and thrill the civilized world.
But
one can only shudder at what discoveries of profound Biblical,
spiritual and historical importance have already been destroyed and lost
on Jerusalem's Temple Mount while it remains under sole Islamic
occupation.
This is Islam's cruel gift to the non-Muslim world.
Victor
Sharpe is a freelance writer and author of several books including The
Blue Hour, a collection of short stories, and Volumes One, Two and Three
of Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state.
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