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Minister Salama on 36th Anniversary of its Burning: Muslims Unremittingly
Adhered to al-Aqsa Mosque

http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=3781

GAZA, August 20, 2005 (WAFA-PLO news agency)- Minister of Waqf and Islamic
Affairs DR, Yossef Jom'a Salama affirmed on Saturday the Muslims unremitting
adherence to the al-Aqsa Mosque.

Salama said, on 36th anniversary of setting Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire, that it
is not the first the Israelis try to set fire to the holy site, adding that
many massacres have had been committed against Palestinians in its yards.

On 21 August 1969, a radical Jew following dawn prayers, when the mosque was
free of worshippers, set fire to the al-Aqsa Mosque. The issue gave birth to
the Organization of the Islamic Conference, an organization concerned with
the Muslims problems and affairs all over the world.

Sheikh Salama condemned the Israeli attempts and threats to destroy the
al-Aqsa Mosque, adding that the excavations Israel is carrying out are
unacceptable.

Sheikh Salama called on both the Arab and the Islamic nations to support the
Palestinian people in his struggle to maintain the Islamic holy sites and
establish the independent Palestinian State.

A.D. (20:49 P) (17:49 GMT)


[IMRA: "on August 29,1969 when a deranged Australian tourist,
twenty-eight-year-old Denis Michael Rohan, a fundamentalist Christian, set
fire to the al-Aksa Mosque." Martin Gilbert in "Jerusalem in the Twentieth
Century" p.308.
- that's "fundamentalist Christian" - not "extremist Jew"]