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> This same mosque is important in Islam because it is in the place where the prophet ascended to heaven. Is it actually important in Islam? Or is it just a wa
by SilverElfin 1y ago
> This same mosque is important in Islam because it is in the place where the prophet ascended to heaven.
Is it actually important in Islam? Or is it just a way for fundamentalists to make a claim to land that was historically Jewish? Islam was not invented until the 7th century. The temple ruins that the Al Aqsa mosque is built on is much older - by over a thousand years. I’ve also seen some Muslim scholars claim that the “real” Al-Aqsa is actually not on this site but elsewhere, and potentially lost over time.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y ago>Is it actually important in Islam? Or is it just a way for fundamentalists to make a claim to land that was historically Jewish? A little of both. Mohammed was sort of a weeb, but for jews. But the jews snubbed him, and he said he'd run off and start his own Abrahamic religion. So while it was just to make a claim to land, it was done right at the beginning, and nothing that any muslim alive today is guilty of... or even their great-great-grandparents, come to that.