My Way News - Violent clashes erupt at Jerusalem's holiest site
My Way News reports: "The disputing claims to the man-made platform in Jerusalem's Old City lie at the heart of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. It is revered as the holiest site in Judaism, home to two biblical Temples, and Jews pray at the foot of the compound at the Western Wall. In the Islamic tradition [emphasis added], it is the place where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven in a nighttime journey recounted in the Quran, and is considered the third-holiest site after the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina."

Comment: Although scholars, historians and archeologists agree on the status of Jerusalem as the capital of ancient Israel and the seat of the David's kingdom, it's status in Islamic culture is based merely on tradition. Jerusalem is not even mentioned in the Koran. Any impartial observer would find that Judaism and Christianity have a far greater claim to the Temple Mount than the later and much newer religion of Islam. We can only conclude that followers of Islam make an issue of it for political reasons born of spite and antipathy for the Jews. Some Palestinian scholars go so far as to deny that any Jewish temples ever stood on the site. Such willful deception should not be encouraged.