Fanatic Jewish group gears up for storming the Aqsa Mosque

October 11, 2006

Occupied Jerusalem - Israeli news websites have revealed that a Jewish fanatic group was gearing up to storm the Aqsa Mosque and defile it Wednesday two days after a similar step by an extremist Israeli MP.

The websites unveiled that Israeli right-wing politician Moshe Feiglin had invited his supporters to participate in his plan of storming the Aqsa Mosque, touring its plazas and then roaming the streets of the old town of the occupied city of Jerusalem.

But the invitation of Feiglin who was once a candidate to lead the rightist Israeli Likud Party, prompted the Aqsa foundation that caters for Muslim holy shrines in Palestine to appeal to the guards of the Mosque to remain vigilant against any such step, and called on Muslims in Jerusalem and those living in the 1948-occupeid lands to march to the Aqsa and defend it.

It further held the IOA fully responsible for any adverse repercussions that might follow that aggressive attempt.

Uri Ariel, head of the extremist Mifdal bloc in the Israeli Knesset (parliament), had desecrated the sanctity of the Aqsa Mosque on Monday, and said while touring its compound that it was about time for the Jewish people to control the Aqsa Mosque and pray in it.

Ariel's step was widely condemned by Palestinian religious leaders, including Sheikh Tayseer Al-Tamimi, chief justice in Palestine, who described the step as "flagrant insult" to feelings of Muslims worldwide.

Tamimi further reminded the IOA that the bloody Aqsa intifada erupted in the wake of the infamous sacrilegious visit of former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon to the Mosque in the year 2000.

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