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[wasabi_poptart]

Okay, I did some research on the whole Temple Mount issue, and I found out the law banning Jews from entering is as Israeli one, not a Muslim one. So the people who are keeping the Jews out of the Temple Mount are other Jews. I could not figure out why, except that it's so sacred nobody ought to be there at all. But then the Muslims built a Mosque there, so they are allowed in. Or something like that.

So how does that work? Do they card you at the door for your religion, or are you on the honor system not to try to sneak in, or what?

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[unprotoize.livejournal.com]

If they card you at the door, Maher probably wouldn't have put up with that. I'm pretty sure the guy doesn't give a crap. Or is that no longer what you're asking?

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

I'm just trying to figure out how it works. In the past, whenever I heard somebody say "Jews are forbidden from the Temple Mount!" it was always a Jew who said it, and it was always in the same tone of righteous indignation, like the Temple Mount was some kind of restricted country club in upstate New York. So when I saw that Bill Maher had filmed a scene in it for Religulous, I started to wonder, whose law was it keeping Jews out and letting Muslims in? From what I know of Islamic practices, anyone is welcome anywhere, provided you are showing the proper respect, so it didn't make sense that the Muslims would ban Jews, or anyone, from the mosque if they wanted to go.