Jerusalem – rallying cry for all Muslims

Jerusalem Day is celebrated this week by more than 1.6 billion Muslims all over the world.

Since 1980, the last Friday of each Ramadan has been dedicated to Jerusalem, to urge the younger generations to identify with the sufferings of Palestinians under Israeli occupation.

Friday mosque preachers in all Arab capitals have as the theme of their sermons the need to regain Jerusalem and re-establish the Palestinians’ rights in all of their occupied country.

But Jerusalem is being stripped, systemically and gradually, of its Islamic character.

Nearly 300,000 settlers have been given financial incentives to live in the Arab quarters of Jerusalem. 

Tens of synagogues have been erected all over the city to give the impression that there has never been a Christian or Arab presence.

Orthodox Jews led by their rabbis storm Al Aqsa Mosque daily, protected by the Israeli police, and raise banners showing the Third Temple replacing the Dome of the Rock Mosque.

Even demographically, the Arab population in the city dwindled to 33 per cent of the total population of one million in both the old city and New Jerusalem.

The continued occupation of Jerusalem provides justification for more violence in the region.

Muslims will never accept the third holiest mosque in Islam to become the Third Temple for the Israeli Likudniks.

One of the root causes of Islamic violence in the region has been the loss of Al Aqsa Mosque.

One of Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini’s mentors was a cleric called Nawwab Safawi who visited Jordan in 1948 and was shocked to see Israeli soldiers on the other side of the Jerusalem fence.

On his return to Tehran, he was executed for his speeches against the shah who supplied oil to the Israelis.

His underground party was called Fedaeyyan Islam; its platform called to liberate Palestine from the occupiers.

Following the fall of the shah in 1979, the Iranian army had 100,000 soldiers form what was called Al Quds Brigades.

At the top of their political platform, Al Qaeda and other Jihadist Salafist groups say they want to liberate the “captive Al Aqsa Mosque”. It is to this slogan they appeal most to recruit more fighters from all over the Muslim world. 

The Islamic world, with its 1.6 billion believers, both Sunni and Shiite, observe “Jerusalem Day” and try to mobilise all efforts to seek the liberation of Al Aqsa Mosque from Likudnik Zionist attempts to demolish it and rebuild the Third Temple in its place.