Adherents of the Religion of Peace periodically gather to throw rocks at Jews gathering beneath their mosque on the top of the Temple Mount to pray at the base of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Why, you might wonder, would they be so aggressive?
Well, for one thing, the Jewish claim to the property is much older than the Muslim one (or, for that matter, than the existence of Islam itself) and, in addition to the longtime RoP tradition of blatant intolerance for other religions, they’re probably worried (particularly the history-challenged Palestinians) that they might lose their lease on the place.
Not that there’s much chance of it. Although a few Israeli Jews talk of conquering the mount and destroying the mosque, the Israeli government is determined to keep it open to all who claim it as holy, which includes both Muslims and Jews.
Indeed, it was Israeli Gen. Moshe Dayan, in 1967, who insisted on the sanctity of the mosque atop the Mount when Israeli paratroopers retook the old city from the Jordanians in the Six Day War. The Israelis did promptly clear the area around the Western Wall for religious Jews to use, as they had since antiquity except when the Muslims denied them. The Muslims no longer have that power, so now they throw rocks.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 