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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/824139.html
Digs, Lies and the Mugrabi Bridge
[Ha'aretz] Nadav Shragai - The Mugrabi bridge plan exposes the great Muslim denial - the denial of the Jewish bond to Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the Temple. Thousands of Islamic rulings, publications and sources deny the Jewish roots in Jerusalem and its holy places. They claim that the Temple didn't even exist in Jerusalem but was located in Nablus or Yemen. Many Muslim adjudicators attach the word "so-called" to the word "temple." Muslim religious figures attempt to portray the Jewish presence in Jerusalem as having been short-term. The Western Wall is a Muslim site, they argue, and say Judaism "contaminates the city's Muslim character." Muslim religious leaders are rewriting Jerusalem's history and introducing new terms and content into Muslim and Palestinian discourse that are total nonsense. It is therefore easy to understand why the Muslims are so afraid of archaeological digs around the Temple Mount. Muslims fear these excavations not because they physically endanger the al-Aqsa mosque's foundations, but because they undermine the tissue of lies proclaiming that the Jews have no valid historical roots in the city and its holy sites.