Video: the Islamic Co-Option of Jerusalem

7/10/2008

"Here's why this story is critical to the counter-jihad today: the gradual Islamisation of new territory and the co-option of it's most important religious site has been an essential feature of jihad since the time of Muhammad. The Kaaba Stone in Mecca was a pagan site of worship before it was appropriated by Islam. The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and the great mosque of Istanbul were erected on the sites of Christian Byzantine churches. And as I have explained two grand mosques were positioned deliberately to eradicate the holiest site in Judaism. A co-option that has retroactively linked credibility to the Islamic claim to Jerusalem ...

Today, no one remembers that Damascus and Istanbul were Christian. If not for the modern Zionist movement, the Jewish connection to Jerusalem may have been completely obscured as well. If Islam sees fit to abort the entire history of a three thousand year old city, do you think they'd have any compunction about eclipsing cities and civilisations that are relatively young? ...

In one hundred years, will any Muslims concede that London was British? Perhaps there will be a tense standoff as the city is divided between Islamic and secular blocks. Will Cologne be remembered as German? When Mosques outnumber and outshine churches the former Western character of the city will be consigned to realm of memories. Will intellectuals in America argue over whether Paris belongs to the French? Might one be castigated as a neocon Frankist to support the construction of provocative ethnic French settlements in the suburbs of Paris among established Muslim communities? These are the important questions that spring to mind when one contemplates the Muslim co-option of Jerusalem."