Tuesday, February 06, 2007

A largely overlooked detail in the Jerusalem mosque compound archaeological dig story

There is this story about Israelis doing an archaeological digging in a close proximity to the Al-Aqsa mosque, and it has Muslims all riled up:

Muslim leaders and Arab politicians Tuesday urged Palestinians to rush to the flashpoint Jerusalem mosque compound to protest against Israeli works that they charge threaten the site's foundations.

But that is not what's important here. I'll bet that the most important part of the story is largely overlooked by the vast majority of readers:

A witness saw a small bulldozer digging up a path next to Dung Gate that leads to one of the mosque entrances, near the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site.

A Dung Gate leads to one of Islam's holiest of holies. A DUNG GATE.

Crossposted at Eye On The World.

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