Those collecting stones inside the mosque are not disregarding the “sacredness” of the place. In their view, they’re doing a sacred act: in the Qur’an Allah commands them to fight unbelievers & “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5). So for them, gathering rocks to fight Jews is an act of worship.
Also, a mosque is intended to be a center for Islamic activity, and the highest Islamic activity, according to a hadith, is jihad. A hadith has a Muslim asking Muhammad: “Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward).” Muhammad replied, “I do not find such a deed.” (Bukhari 4.52.44).
In 2014 in Kenya, police raided two Mombasa mosques and found grenades and ammunition.
In 2016 in Russia, an imam was arrested as weapons and explosives were found in his mosque. In Philadelphia, the Muslim who shot a cop for the Islamic State was a “frequent member” of a local mosque. In Singapore, 26 Muslims were deported; they supported the Islamic State, studied assassination techniques, and recruited in a mosque.
In Afghanistan in 2019, weapons, mines and bombs were found stored in a mosque.
And are just a handful of innumerable available examples.
“Clashes at Al Aqsa mosque: Viral images, videos reveal Palestinians were equipped with stones inside the mosque compound,” OpIndia, April 16, 2022:
Hours after clashes broke out between Israeli police and Palestinians inside the premises of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem on Friday (April 15), social media users pointed out how the latter had been collecting stones to pelt at the Israeli forces.
Columnist Yisrael Medad shared a video where Palestinians were seen barricading the Al-Aqsa mosque and collecting stones. While labelling it as a ‘religious service’, Medad pointed out how the stone pelters were not interrupted or stopped by other worshippers within the mosque premises.
Dov Hikind, the founder of America Against Antisemitism, had also shared images of stones that were kept within the mosque premises. He had inquired, “If Ramadan and Al Aqsa truly mattered to Palestinians why would they desecrate the month and the site by bringing stones to throw and playing soccer in there?! Religion is no excuse for violence so don’t try to abuse it.”…
abu taleb says
Muslims never feel offended when mosques are used for storing weapons and killing people. Or, for raping, torturing or killing people. As long as it is the muslims who do that.
Keith O says
The best outcome for all concerned would be for the creator to level the entire site with an earthquake.
But that would leave an opening for the mudslimes to squeal about how the Zionists caused the earthquake.
gravenimage says
Did stone-throwers ‘desecrate’ Al-Aqsa Mosque by collecting stones there to throw at Israelis?
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Nope–this is orthodox Islam.
abu taleb says
If the stones are not used to throw at Israelis, the stones can be used to wipe out the butts. LOL
Narrated Salman al-Farsi: It was said to Salman: Your Prophet teaches you everything, even about excrement. He replied: Yes. He has forbidden us to face the qiblah at the time of easing or urinating, and cleansing with right hand, and cleansing with less than three stones, or cleansing with dung or bone.
Sunan Abu Dawud 1:7