Pipes provides an excellent overview

Submitted by Les Peterson (United States), May 20, 2002 at 23:09

A friend of mine recently defended the Arab world's interests in Jerusalem by suggesting that Mohammad "rose to heaven from the Church of the Rock"(sic). I explained to him that there are misunderstandings surrounding the Quran passages, but Daniel Pipes' article succinctly provides an excellent overview.

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