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The Lebanese government (or Hizballah) has gone to a great deal of trouble to provide Iran’s president Achmadinejad with a replica of the in southern Lebanon so he can throw rocks at Israeli soldiers going about their lawful duties inside their own country. There’s just one “minor detail”: It’s not a replica of the .
'Al-Aqsa' being built for Ahmadinejad
The Lebanese people will soon have an Al-Aqsa mosque of their own.The mosque, to be built a few hundred meters from the border with Israel, is being constructed in honor of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's upcoming visit.
Construction is nearing its end in the village of Maroun al-Ras, with the structure being made to look exactly like its Jerusalem prototype – including the golden dome on top. But there is one glaring difference: An Iranian flag, a tribute to its sponsor.
Bulldozers and cranes have been working for months on the site, which will also include a boardwalk and a lookout point from which Ahmadinejad plans to throw a symbolic stone at Israel. The president will also inaugurate the mosque.
“It is unbelievable that Iranian money has made its way to the entrance of our home. It is very worrying,” says Shimon Biton, head of the council of Avivim, a town located just a few hundred meters from the new mosque.
“From our bitter experience we are sure that during the next war this site will be used as a foremost Hezbollah outpost. I am certain that bunkers and military storerooms have been built underneath it.”
The residents of Avivim plan to head to the border during Ahmadinejad’s visit in order to stage a protest, Biton says.
If the visit is indeed carried out, it will be the Iranian president’s first since his inauguration in 2005. While there, he is scheduled to meet with Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, as well as a number of Lebanese leaders.
However the impending visit has stirred controversy in the Arab world, with Lebanese media inveighing against the unnecessary provocation of Israel and even Syrian President Bashar Assad advising against it during a recent meeting with Ahmadinejad.
Either the Lebanese government or Hizballah went to a lot of trouble to create a replica of what they think is the al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. What they built is a replica of the Dome of the Rock, also located on the Temple Mount. It is NOT a replica of the al-Aqsa mosque. I guess it’s obvious that among the entire team that designed and built the replica, there’s not one single person who knew they weren’t building a replica of the right structure.
The picture accompanying this article proves the claim of al-Aqsa being Islam’s “third holiest site” is a blatant lie. A similar picture of the original (Dome of the Rock, not the al-Aqsa mosque) shows up in dozens of “Save al-Aqsa” posts, including several by Marco Villa on this forum.
What kind of person claiming that a place is the “third holiest site” in his religion doesn’t know what it looks like? The al-Aqsa mosque has a grey, leaden dome and the Dome of the Rock has a golden dome. That alone should be enough for people to identify both of them correctly. The fact that thousands of Muslims can’t tell the difference between the two indicates that both are no more relevant to their religion than a mosque anywhere else, aside from political considerations. The only time Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa mosque become “important” to Islam is when the land is controlled by non-Muslims. Otherwise, they couldn’t give a tinker’s damn for Jerusalem.
Here’s a map of the Temple Mount compound, showing their locations. Note that the Western Wall (the holiest site in Judaism) is on the left, or west, between the two and outside the compound.
Just for good measure, here's an aerial photo of the Temple Mount:
This is a photo of the REAL al-Aqsa mosque:
And this is a photo of the real Dome of the Rock (not the replica in Lebanon):
How can anyone with even one eye mistake one for the other?
