The Islamic claim to Jerusalem is false.
muhammad dreamed he flew on a "magical" horse (Buraq) in one night from mecca the birth place of islam and "Al-Uzzá" to a "Further Mosque" (which muslims claim located on the temple mount), and ascended to heaven and came all the way back ! (LOL),therefore jerusalem is holy to muslims.
The problem is that this "theory" doesn't even fit with historical,archaeological or even early islamic theological evidence (not to mention the dream part LOL) !
There were no mosques in Jerusalem in 632 c.e. at the death of Muhammad... Jerusalem was than a Christian-occupied city.
In the days of Muhammad, who died in 632 of the Common Era, Jerusalem was a Christian-occupied city within the Byzantine Empire.
Jerusalem was captured by caliph Omar only in 638 c.e., six years after Muhammad's death.
Throughout all this time there were only churches in Jerusalem, and a church stood on the Temple Mount, called the Church of Saint Mary of Justinian, built in the Byzantine architectural style, the mosque it self was build 80 years AFTER caliph Omar occupied jerusalem.
(the mosques shapes you commonly see today are a copy of Byzantine architectural style Churches !, you didn't know that did ya?)
'In the Book of Raids, early Muslim historian and biographer "Waqidi"(أبو عبد الله محمد بن عمر بن واقد ) described Muhammad's stay in the village of Jiranah a few miles outside Mecca. He wrote: "The Prophet arrived in Jiranah on Thursday, and remained 13 nights. He then departed Jiranah after praying at the Al-Aqsa="Further Mosque" located on the shore of the river bed. The Prophet used to pray there whenever he came to Jiranah.
'Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiya (AD 638-700), a close relative of Muhammad, have said, denigrating the notion that the prophet of Islam ever set foot on the Rock in Jerusalem; 'these damned Syrians,' by which he means the Umayyads, 'pretend that Allah put His foot on the Rock in Jerusalem, though one person ever put his foot on the rock, namely Abraham.'
ibn taymiyyah (1263-1328)(Arabic: تقي الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن عبد السلام بن عبد الله ابن تيمية الحراني),
one of the most important islamic scholars wrote "in jerusalem there is not a place one calls sacred ,and the same holds true for the tombs of hebron"
-Ibn Khaldun (Arabic: أبو زيد ولي الدين عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي)-one of the most creditable Arab historians, in 1377 c.e. wrote: "Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel extended over 1400 years... It was the Jews who implanted the culture and customs of the permanent settlement".
"In the East, however, crafts have established themselves since the days of ancient Persian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Israelite, Greek and Roman rule".[Ibid., p 55]
in The 13th century Arab biographer -Yaqut ibn-'Abdullah(Arabic: ياقوت الحموي الرومي)- noted "Mecca is holy to muslims; Jerusalem is holy only to the Jews"
"It is written in the Holy Qur'an that God granted the Land of Israel to the Children of Israel and ordered them to settle therein (Qur'an, Sura 5:21) & that before the Last Day He will bring the Children of Israel to retake possession of their Land, gathering them from all different countries and nations (Qu'ran, Sura 17:104). Consequently, as a Muslim who abides by the Qur'an, I believe that opposing the existence of the State of Israel means opposing a Divine decree."
- Sheik Abdul Paleizo -
... and it's kinda funny to me that the Quran doesn't mention the words "palestinians" or "jerusalem" or even "AL-QUDS" even once ! ! !
but the israelis 64 times in the quran and the hadith ! ! !
يَا قَوْمِ ادْخُلُوا الْأَرْضَ الْمُقَدَّسَةَ الَّتِي كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ وَلَا تَرْتَدُّوا عَلَىٰ أَدْبَارِكُمْ فَتَنقَلِبُوا خَاسِرِينَ: "and now, my people (the Israelites), enter the Holy Land which Allah has destined for you".
-Qur'an, Sura 5:21-
-Qu'ran, Sura 17:104-
Worlds most famous "palestinian" ARAFAT=born in egypt !
His ancestral tribe "Al-Qudwa" = from syria !
"You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time"
-Abraham Lincoln-
