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"Al-Quds Day" Was Invented by Ayatollah Khomeini
(Substack) Lenny Ben-David - Thousands of protesters demonstrated Friday to mark "Al-Quds Day - Jerusalem Day" in Tehran, London, and New York. The first Al-Quds Day was established by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979, on the fourth Friday of the month of Ramadan. Jerusalem/Al-Quds is the third-holiest site for Sunni Muslims after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. For Shiites, like Iranians, Jerusalem barely registers since their veneration of Shia imams focuses on the Iraqi cities of Karbala and Najaf, and the Iranian cities of Qom and Mashhad. While public relations campaigns feature the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, this shrine is not the Al-Aqsa mosque. Worshippers turned their backs to the Dome of the Rock and face south toward the Al-Aqsa mosque and Mecca.