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How come Muslims want Jerusalem? They built the dome after the temple, so why do they lay claim to it?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The moon worshipers want anything and everything that is rightly and bucolically the property or gift from The god to the Jewish people.

    Until recently there was no such place as palestine and no palestinians..... the name is a late invention.

    The country historically was called "The Promised Land" or Israel

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    All three abrahamic religions lay similar claims to Jerusalem and for similar reasons. Each has built an edifice from which to worship their version of the supreme being, and each wants to protect that edifice. Militarily, the best way to do so is to possess not only that edifice but the surrounding area as well.

  • annino
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    4 years ago

    i'd truly care. Israel has no precise to the land no longer to point the a very non secular position contained in the hearts of the Muslims. what's worse is it truly isn't any longer merely the Dome of Rock, in spite of the undeniable fact that the Al-Aqsa Mosque which they're already destroying parts of. that is ridiculous the shear and utter destruction it extremely is being spread there. merely this week they desirous to kill civilians who had to convey foodstuff to the Gazan's who actually do not have any further some thing!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Jerusalem was central to the spiritual identity of Muslims from the very beginning of their faith. When the Prophet Muhammad first began to preach in Mecca in about 612, he had his converts prostrate themselves in prayer in the direction of Jerusalem. They were symbolically reaching out toward the Jewish and Christian God, whom they were committed to worshipping, and turning their back on the paganism of Arabia. Muhammad never believed that he was founding a new religion that canceled out the previous faiths...

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  • 1 decade ago

    Muslims does not want Jerusalem for themselves.Rather,they want to make it free and to give it for whom deserves it even if the deserved one were not Muslim.It is not a matter for claiming the right to gain Jerusalem.It is a matter of protecting it.I do not claim that Muslims are the only people who can protect it from what's happening there.Muslims want anybody to protect this place which is holy for them and for Christians as well.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Muslims, Jews, Christians, they all lay claim to it. Isn't it just stones, dust and pain? Would it not be better to raze it? Would it not be better if people finally understood that it is the spirit that matters and not stones?

  • 1 decade ago

    Muslims don't want the dome only, they want their islamic land (Holy Land) and to help their brothers from Zionism's occupy.

  • 1 decade ago

    Before Israel became Israel it was owned by Palestinians, but then a group called zionist took Israel from the Palestinians and they want i back regardless of order buildings chronologically

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because Allah just like Yahweh promised the land to both tribes as their own.

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