Al Aqsa Foundation: Fundamentalists broke into the Al Aqsa Mosque
August 23, 2009 13:01 by IMEMC & Agencies

The Al Aqsa Foundation for Waqf (Endowment) and Heritage reported Sunday that a group of fundamental Israeli settlers broke into the Al Aqsa Mosque from Al Mughrabi Gate, toured in the area and prayed in the yards of the mosque.

The Foundation added that this step is very serious especially since its comes with the beginning Holy Month of Ramadan, while in the past Israel did not allow Jewish groups to enter the Al Aqsa Mosque area during Ramadan.

It considered this step as part of the Israeli plans against the mosque, and called on the Jerusalem Palestinians and the Arabs in the country to flock to the mosque and protect it. 

Last Thursday, fundamental Jewish groups conducted ceremonies regarding their planned temple, which they want to ‘rebuild’ on the ruins of the mosque.

The groups also held a wedding ceremony in the mosque and took some of its sand.

They also held seminars on the archeology of the area and said that “all indicators and prophesies indicate that the Temple is under the mosque”.

Recently the Temple Institute, which advocates for ‘rebuilding’ the temple after demolishing the Al Aqsa Mosque, held a meeting for its members in the yard of the Al Aqsa Mosque.

In its mission statement, the Temple Institute states that it will do it can to bring about the ‘rebuilding of the temple’. It adds that its main focus is to start the actual rebuilding of the temple. The group was founded in 1987.

Jewish religous groups 'enter Al-Aqsa compound'24/08/2009

Jerusalem – Ma’an – Jewish religious groups entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, according to the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage.

The group sent a statement explaining that the incident was unprecedented, because Jewish religious groups have never in the past entered the compound during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The month of fasting and prayer began on Saturday.

Israeli authorities have not commented on the report.

The Al-Aqsa Foundation called on Palestinians from Jerusalem and inside the Green Line to come to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in order to protect it.

Last Thursday the websites of Jewish religious groups published images showing a wedding party which that was secretly staged inside the Al-Aqsa compound. The groups have also entered the compound for religious rituals and lectures about the archaeological findings they saw are the remains of the first and second Jewish Temples on the same site.

Believed to be the location where the prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven during his Night Journey, Al-Aqsa is the third holiest site in Islam. The compound, with the golden Dome of the Rock, is also a focal point of Palestinian national pride.

The compound sits atop what Jews refer to as the Temple Mount, where the Jewish first and second Temples are thought to have stood. The location is especially sensitive because some extremist Jewish groups seek the demolition of the mosques and the construction of a “Third Temple.”

A visit by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the compound in 2000 helped spark the second Palestinian uprising, the Al-Aqsa Intifada.
Source: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=220968

19.08.09 - 09:36

Jerusalem / Maisa Abu Ghazaleh for PNN – Israeli police broke the locks on one of the gates of Al Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem’s Old City.

The number of Israeli assaults, by both settlers and military, often rises during the month of Ramadan. Tuesday’s incident took place in front of guards for the Muslim holy site who prevented the Israeli police from replacing the original lock with one to which they held the key.

One of the guards at the mosque said Wednesday that yesterday while working he saw Israeli police officers using iron cutters to break the door locks and replace with a lock of their own. He informed the Waqf, the Department of Religious Affairs.

Director of the Waqf, Sheikh Azzam Al Khatib, arrived immediately on the scene and prevented the Israelis from replacing the lock they had just destroyed with one of their own. Noon prayers were just ending and a number of worshippers had gathered as well.

Waqf Chairman Sheikh Abdul Azim Salhab denounced the latest Israeli violation of the Islamic sanctity, he said. “What happened is an attack on the rights of Muslims and Al Aqsa Mosque, the Department of Waqf, and Islamic sovereignty in the management of the mosque.”

Sheikh Khatib said, “What happened is a dangerous precedent. What was done by the police was an act of serious prejudice to the sanctity of the blessed Al Aqsa Mosque, and was unwarranted. This has not occurred, the seizing of the key to the door of Moroccans, since 1967.”

President of the Supreme Islamic Conference, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, said that the Israelis are tightening control of the mosque in order to eventually completely take over its management.

The UK government is about to spend $700 million dollars installing surveillance cameras inside the private homes of citizens to ensure that children go to bed on time, attend school and eat proper meals. No you aren’t reading a passage from George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, this is Britain in 2009, a country which already has more surveillance cameras watching its population than the whole of Europe put together.

Now the government is embarking on a scheme called “Family Intervention Projects” which will literally create a nanny state on steroids, with social services goons and private security guards given the authority to make regular “home checks” to ensure parents are raising their children correctly. Telescreens will also be installed so government spies can keep an eye on whether parents are mistreating kids and whether the kids are fulfilling their obligations under a pre-signed contract.

Around 2,000 families have been targeted by this program so far and the government wants to snare 20,000 more within the next two years. The tab will be picked up by the taxpayer, with the “interventions” being funded through local council authorities. Another key aspect of the program will see parents deemed “responsible” by the government handed the power to denounce and report bad parents who allow their children to engage in bad behavior. Such families will then be targeted for “interventions”.

Both parents and children will also be forced to sign a “behavior contract” with the government known as Home School Agreements before the start of every year, in which the state will dictate obligations that it expects to be met. The opposition Conservative Party, who are clear favorites to win the next British election, commented that the program does not go far enough and is “too little, too late.” [...]

The move to install surveillance cameras inside private homes is also on the agenda across the pond. In February 2006, Houston Chief of Police Harold Hurtt said cameras should be placed inside apartments and homes in order to “fight crime” due to there being a shortage of police officers. "I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?” Chief Hurtt told reporters.

[...] If such programs come to fruition and are implemented on a mass scale then the full scope of George Orwell’s depiction of a totalitarian society is his classic novel 1984 will have been realized.

The following passage is from Orwell’s 1984:
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. http://bit.ly/10XCCC

Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes - By Charlie Sorrel  August 3, 2009
I’m well aware of the authorities’ love of surveillance and snooping, but [I] am amazed by the governments latest plan: to install Orwell’s telescreens in 20,000 homes.  http://bit.ly/3wZxXS

SIN BINS FOR WORST FAMILIES - July 23,2009 - By Alison Little
THOUSANDS of the worst families in England are to be put in “sin bins” in a bid to change their bad behaviour, Ed Balls announced yesterday. http://bit.ly/22bgE

Israelis want temple rebuilt at Al-Aqsa site
Mohammed Mar'i; Arab News
 
RAMALLAH: A news survey conducted by the Israeli Ynet news service and the Gesher organization found that about two thirds of the Israeli public want the Second Temple rebuilt. Gesher claims a 4.6 margin of error on a survey of 516 Israelis. The Temple Mount, which is the foundation of the First and Second temples is today home to Islam’s third-holiest mosque, Al-Aqsa. The Second Temple, built by Herod the Great, was destroyed in 70 A.D. when the Romans sacked Jerusalem.

Sixty-four percent responded favorably to the question of rebuilding the temple commissioned by Herod the Great, while 36 percent responded negatively. Among the practicing and orthodox Jewish Israelis, virtually all respondents wanted to see the Second Temple rebuilt. Just under half of secular Israelis — 47 percent — also said they would like to see Herod’s Temple rebuilt. Eighty percent of respondents said it was “justified” to mark what many Jews consider the saddest day of their history (the destruction of the temple) by rebuilding the temple. [...]

The Palestinians are seeking to set up a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, including Palestinian sovereignty over the city’s holy sites on the Temple Mount. But the Jewish state says the city is its eternal capital. The United States also supports this policy. US President Barack Obama stated publicly last year that he does not support a divided Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said recently: “The three major religions of the world exist in peace, have access to all their sites, only because Jerusalem is united and under Israeli rule.” http://bit.ly/33oyM

Jewish fundamentalists storm al-Aqsa Mosque; Thu, 30 Jul 2009

More than 200 Jewish extremists have reportedly entered al-Aqsa Mosque, positioning themselves inside the holy site, allegedly to perform religious rituals. According to a statement released by the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage, the incursion was "significant". The foundation has called on Muslims, Arabs and all Palestinians to take action in support of the mosque.

The attack comes amidst Tisha B'Av, also known as "The Ninth of Av" -- a Jewish fasting day in commemoration of the destruction of the two Temples. The occasion falls on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, which usually coincides with late July or mid-August.

The First Temple was built by King Solomon and was considered the most sacred site in ancient Judaism. It was destroyed when the Babylonians pillaged Jerusalem (al-Quds) in 586 BCE. According to Jewish accounts, the construction of the Second Temple was completed in 516 BCE on the site of the First Temple but was destroyed during the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE. The destruction of the two Temples allegedly took place on the same day -- the ninth of Av -- but about 656 years apart. MP/HGH/AA http://bit.ly/IVLEx