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Jerusalem was to undermine the
legitimacy of the older religions,
Judaism and Christianity, which
consider Jerusalem to be a holy city.
Islam is presented as the only legiti-
mate religion, destined to replace
the other two, because they had
changed and distorted the Word of
God, each in its turn.

Allah's Influence
Though Judaism and Christianity
can exist side by side in Jerusalem,
Islam regards both of them as
betrayals of Allah and his teach-
ings, and has always done, and will
continue to do, all in its power to
expel both of them from this city.
It is interesting to note that this
expulsion is retroactive: Muslim
speakers consistently make it a
point to claim that the Jews never
had a temple on the Temple Mount
and certainly not two temples.
(Where, then, according to them,
did Jesus preach?)
Yasser Arafat, himself a secular
person (ask Hamas!), did exactly
what the Caliphs of the Umayyad
dynasty did 1,300 years ago: He
marshaled the holiness of Jerusalem
to serve his political ends.
Since the holiness of Jerusalem to
Islam has always been, and still is,
no more than a politically motivated
holiness, any Muslim leader or ruler
would be putting his political head
on the block should he give it up.
Should Israel give up on its capital
just because some Muslims decided
to recycle the political problems of
the Umayyads 1,250 years after the
curtain came down on their role in
history? ❑

Dr. Mordechai Kedar is a lecturer in

Arab and Islamic studies at Bar-Ilan

University's Departments of Arabic

and Middle East Studies. He also is a

researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center

for Strategic Studies.

Dr. Kedar speaks on
"Jerusalem: What Is The
Struggle About?" 7 p.m.
Monday, Feb.15, Young
Israel of Oak Park, 15140 W.
10 Mile. Directions: (248)
967-3655. Free. Sponsors:
Manhigut Yehudit/The Jewish
Leadership Movement (www.
jewishisrael.org ) and YIOP
(www.yiop.org ). Information:
(773) 597-7690 or
yocheved3@gmail.com .

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