B.S. as usual
Reader comment on item: The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem
in response to reader comment: Dealing with historical islam in an honest way, thank you.

Submitted by fbwolfe (United States), Apr 19, 2006 at 01:41

Those who are students of history know that these ...are full of lies, as that is the only way they can reconcile their viewpoint of events. After the Diaspora caused by Titus, there was an interval when all Jews were forbidden from even looking upon the ruins of Jerusalem.

Then came the Christian period when this forbiddance was eliminated. Concurrently there was the problem of the Persian or Iranian Empire wishing to expand it's territory by warfare with the Eastern Roman Empire which had controlled this area of the Levant from the pagan days. There were a few Arab Christian tribes that were enlisted to guard this region of the eastern Roman Empire against the Iranians. They were faithful in this and when the Iranians and later the Arabs were brought into the belief in Mohammed, they fought to the death against these.

After the war of some twenty years, both sides were nearing exhaustion. Along came a plague of some disease that killed many of the the chief combatants and the king of the Iranians. He was replaced by a child king who ruled through an adult who guided the kingdom. This situation did not help either of the contending empires when the followers of the now dead leader of the new "religion" began attacking first the Iranians and then the territories of the Eastern Roman Empire. Due to the weakness of both of the empires, it became a matter of time for the fanatical new "religion" to enter and take possesion of the Levant and the Iranian empire. There was also the issue of the Icons among the Christians that alllowed for many Syrians to go along with the followers of Mr. Mohammed when they were put to the test.

The Arabs (followers of Mr. Mohammed) took advantage of the situation and took possesion of all of the Levant. The Temple of Herod had been destroyed and the Jewish people of the two kingdoms were deprived of any power to prevent the occupation of their homeland and principal city and so the Arabs took posseion of the city and hired some Greeks to design a mosque to be placed on the area of the place where the Temple of Solomon and later Herod had stood.

Today we see the selective memory of the followers of Mr. Mohammed denying that there ever was a temple there on temple mount at all. If you hear what they have to say, there is the constant lie that their great leader was greater than the Jews or Jesus of the Christians. They have sought to be accepted as the equal and supplanters of these faiths. They are usurpers and liars and they in their heart know it but they cannot admit that they have fallen to the lies of a man who sought to control his own people by his SELF PROCLAIMED title of prophet. Here was a man who told one lie after another and eliminated his opposition by murder. He was illiterate and so whatever is written about him was written by someone else who may be actually responsible for the skillful rewriting of parts of the five books of the Jews and parts of the New Testament with Mr. Mohammed becoming a major player. It would appear that these people are not quite accepted. Hopefully the people that have been born under this religion will stop and review the validity of their beliefs and perhaps compare notes relative to the merits of this religion imposed so long ago by an army of fanatics that brooked no opposition nor questioning.

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