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How Obama Got His Groove Back | Beregond's Bar — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:20:09 +0000

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Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:01:39 +0000

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web nachrichten — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:20:56 +0000

This is the first web blog I record any details about this. Who asks to lose time reading the wasted S.F. Chronicle or New York Times? Their broad newsmen’ bias is a lot spoiled than the previous “dead tree” mass media.

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A Class Act, Even in Defeat | Beregond's Bar — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:08:37 +0000

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Chuck — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:55:57 +0000

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Comment on Will Muslims Permit Jews to Pray in the Dome of the Rock? by Beregond

Beregond — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:26:42 +0000

1) We could haggle over the question of original pagans vs neopagans, but “have … back now” shows that the question is a red herring, since the post isn’t about returning but sharing.

2) The same Wikipedia article on Temple Mount indicates that the 1967 declaration that spiritual death would result was at least in part due to political pressure from the Israeli government. Even Maimonides lived in a time when Jews were a persecuted minority in their own homeland, and ignored the fact that someone had to tread where the first temple stood in order to build the second.

Completely taking the 3rd holiest site in Islam away would have made the military situation untenable. Israel’s army is very good at being strong where the enemy is weak and is generally technically superior, but if the enemy is strong everywhere then you’re screwed.

Even assuming you are 100% correct, the Dome of the Rock was still once a church. Christian faith generally does not demand that one not set foot on Temple Mount. So the same calls for tolerance and sharing that call for sharing the cathedral at Cordoba should apply to sharing the Dome of the Rock.

3) The Israeli government gave over administration of the Mount to the waqf. The majority of the restrictions in place are placed by the waqf, though Israeli police do place a number of restrictions on group size, check IDs, and so on for those they worry about, as we can see at http://www.templeinstitute.org/police_business.htm . (If you investigate the whole site you will see that the rabbi who runs the Temple Institute regularly conducts tours of parts of the Mount for religious Jews from all over the world. They follow the Circular Route, which goes around the areas where only the priestly class could venture.)

It also seems unlikely that the Israeli government blocked the Golden Gate to keep the Messiah from entering.

In short, Jews visit Temple Mount now. Most Jews avoid the areas where the second temple was, and the Waqf sets the rules and the Israeli police act to enforce those rules at the periphery in order to avoid confrontations on the Mount. Thus, before the waqf guards have the chance to beat a woman for having bare arms the police stop her from ascending. Likewise before your Bible is confiscated and defiled the police stop you from taking it up there.

Comment on Will Muslims Permit Jews to Pray in the Dome of the Rock? by Sofia

Sofia — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:03:15 +0000

1) So can all the pagans have their holy sites, which were often converted to churches, back now please?

2) Jews don’t want to pray on the temple mount — actually it would be sacrilegious to do so (check wikipedia if you don’t believe me).

3) Only group restricting access to the temple mount at the moment is the Israeli government.

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Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:49:04 +0000

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Will Muslims Permit Jews to Pray in the Dome of the Rock? | Beregond's Bar — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:32:43 +0000

[...] powers spent the next 800 years getting it back. (I have touched on this history before in “The Right to Feel Offended.”) During the time that Islam was the local religion there were many mosques built, but the [...]