Until 1996, nobody called Rachel’s Tomb a mosque

[Valin]

The Jerusalem Post:

Analysis: UNESCO’s recent designation flies in the face of Jewish history, Islamic tradition and Ottoman confirmation.
NADAV SHRAGAI
11/08/2010

On October 21, UNESCO (the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) declared that Rachel’s Tomb near Jerusalem is the Bilal ibn Rabah mosque – endorsing a Palestinian claim that first surfaced only in 1996 and which ignores centuries of Muslim tradition.

In a series of decisions condemning Israel, the UNESCO board called upon the government to rescind its decision in February to include Rachel’s Tomb and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Israel’s official list of national heritage sites. The sharp protests by Ambassador to UNESCO Nimrod Barkan to the UN body’s decision were expunged from the record by the chairman of the session, the Russian representative, on the pretext that they were too aggressive.

A scrupulous examination of testimonies and historical sources demonstrates that defining Rachel’s Tomb as a mosque does an injustice to facts and traditions anchored in both Muslim documents and Jewish sources, and constitutes distortion, bias and deception. As opposed to the Temple Mount and the Cave of the Patriarchs, which also serve as the location of mosques, Rachel’s Tomb never served as a mosque for the Muslims. The Muslim connection to the site derives from its relation to Rachel and has no connection to Bilal ibn Rabah, Muhammad’s first muezzin.


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[Pepper]

 

 

Sorry, Valin. I was speed reading. I thought they had declared Rachel's D9 Caterpillar to be a mosque.

[Valin]

 

 

Sorry, Valin. I was speed reading. I thought they had declared Rachel's D9 Caterpillar to be a mosque.

 

For goodness sake Don't give them any ideas!

[Pepper]

The Mosque of the D9 Caterpillar,

 

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