Kerry Says Only Muslims, Not Jews, May Pray at Jewish Holy Site

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Why exactly is the Secretary of State trying to dictate who can and can’t pray at a particular place? Does Kerry think that the Temple Mount is a public school?

Washington called for Israeli authorities to reopen the Temple Mount to Muslim worshipers Thursday, while also condemning the shooting of a US-born activist who lobbied for Jewish rights on the holy site

“It is absolutely critical that all sides exercise restraint, refrain from provocative actions and rhetoric, and preserve the historic status quo on the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount – in word and in practice,” Kerry said in a statement.

“The Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount must be re-opened to Muslim worshipers and I support the long-standing practices regarding non-Muslim visitors to the site,” he said.

What are those practices?

“Jews cannot worship atop the mount, only at the Western Wall.”

The Secretary of State of the United States just ordered Israel to limit prayers in a particular place to Muslims, not Jews. And apparently to ban other non-Muslims too.

Remember when the United States used to uphold religious freedom? These days it sends people to jail for offending Muslims and orders other countries to engage in religious discrimination on behalf of Muslims.

 

 

  • Sharps Rifle

    Again, Kerry shows what scum he really is.

    • kasandra

      He’s only doing his master’s bidding.

  • SoCalMike

    Among white on campus at Cal State and UC the only 2 groups that students feel comfortable condemning are Christians and Jews.
    They won’t touch any other group because they march in pretty lock step pc.
    Our politicians too often come from and reflect the mind set of academia.
    Not that Kerry is an academic. He’s just a sell out with military credentials.

    • Joe Krozac

      “military credentials”? surely you jest. John Effin Kerry got three Purple Hearts for three purple scratches, didn’t even spend one DAY in sick bay, and the medals he threw over the fence in that highly publicized ‘event’ back in the day, weren’t even his *own* medals!

      • Juan Pablo

        Don’t forget, being a pansy was a legitimate medical excuse in the 70′s. If I recall correctly, that was why he got the purple hearts

    • Will

      Maybe they are afraid to speak truth about towlie. Those suckers will chop your head off.

  • Gee

    There are 56 countries in the world where immigration is limited to one religion, where it is illegal to convert from the majority religion, where all other religions are at best suppressed if not outright banned, where the people minority religions have extra taxes and limited to no rights.

    Everyone of those regimes are Muslim – yet Herr(i) Kerry is demanding that Israel impose the same laws on it’s own majority.

    • GSD lover

      This needs to be shouted from every roof top.

    • Madame_deFarge

      Yes, when Muslims are a minority they demand or riot for “rights” from the majority.
      When Muslims are the majority there are no minority rights.

  • Joe Krozac

    I got a better idea Secretary of (“did you know I served in Vietnam?”) State Kerry …

    Tell those practitioners of the ‘religion of peace’ (har har) that if they want to pray, to head to MECCA and pray there! The fact is, they didn’t give a g00d g0ddamn about the Temple Mount or Jerusalem until AFTER it was back in Israeli hands.

    Let the followers of that death cult worship their moon god and his pedophile prophet in Saudi Arabia, and GTFO of Israel!

  • KyraNelson

    Too much time on the windsurf circuit. Actually studying, critically thinking- waaaaay too much like actual work. Can’t I just phone it in?

  • Ann Chase

    Teresa Heinz’s ketsup money has gone to his head.

  • georgejochnowitz

    What would happen if Muslims were in complete control of the temple Mount? Events in Iraq and Pakistan have shown us the answer. Rival factions would blow up the buildings, preferably when lots of worshipers were inside.

    • meggy8868

      a few seconds ago

      Maybe that is how the new Jewish temple will come to be rebuilt.

  • Arun Bengali Hindu

    If Kerry has said this. Then she should be egged.

    • Pete

      I have felt like that. Turning your back on him cannot be criticized like egging him.

      Do it often enough and he will crack. He is a hominid after all.

    • claspur

      Only with frozen eggs.

  • Avi

    Let’s keep this part in mind “It is absolutely critical that all sides exercise restraint”. Remember back just before the summer war where that dipshit Psaki was saying “they wouldn’t be calling for restraint if all sides had shown restraint”…

    Yeah, they’re accusing us (Jews) of not showing restraint in filling Jerusalem with police to stop the rioting scum.

    • truebearing

      Evil only wants restraint on good.

  • Berferd

    Kerry’s an idiot and a liar…

    • Justin St.Denis

      Wouldn’t it be lovely if someone shot Lurch dead in his tracks – preferably on live TV where we could replay it over and over and over again the way Roumanians did when they offed Ceaucesceu and his wife.

      • claspur

        Wood he make a sound-though, hitting the ground?

      • Joel Stephen Gehrke

        When you say that, you bring discredit to everyone who loves this country and who grieves that treacherous men like Kerry are out representing us. You imply that we are all extremist fanatics, like yourself. Are you sure you’re not FBI? maybe out here trying to bait people a little bit? Or are you just a fool?

        • Will

          If it were to happen in rahgland, it could kill two birds with one stone.

  • glpage

    If I am correct, there is no statute of limitations for treason. Maybe we can hope that some time soon saner minds will prevail and fix that error.

    • claspur

      It’s true.
      Clinton could still be tried for treason for selling the ICBM guidance missile (MIRV) tech to the Chinese.

  • glpage

    Once again Kerry proves his idiocy.

    • Justin St.Denis

      In spades – for the head spade.

  • Douglas J. Bender

    “Exercis[ing] restraint” (White House definition):

    * Palestinians — Don’t murder too many innocent Israeli civilians.
    * Israel — Don’t construct buildings for Jews to accommodate their natural growth in Israeli lands the Palestinians want or claim.

  • Tom Paine

    I didn’t think it was possible to have a worse SecState than Hillary, but here we are. Kerry is such a piece of crap, just like his boss.

    • claspur

      Oh, I knew from the start it was from bad to worse-with those two.

  • Guest

    Why wasn’t this no-good traitor prosecuted for treason?

    • Justin St.Denis

      Or assassinated for simply being a stupid tool.

      • Joel Stephen Gehrke

        Just shut up.

    • cree

      He, along with Hanoi Jane are condemned as traitors, at least in the hearts of many. There is the other side of the story. Kerry has added more traitor acts to his legacy. Are we not keeping track? Israel now too? May one way or another, justice be served.

  • truebearing

    Kerry was rightly described as “messianic” by an Israeli official, which may have upset him, but was merely an opinion. Kerry and Obama showed no restraint in retaliating by refusing Israel’s request for missiles in the middle of the latest battle with Hamas. They gave Hamas money to unleash itself but restrained Israel from defending itself, which is what they are trying to do with Kerry’s latest evilidiocy (coined specifically to encapsulate the combination of abject stupidity and blatant evil inherent in everything Obama and his minions say or do).

    • Guest

      Maybe that is how the new Jewish temple will come to be rebuilt.

  • Raymond_in_DC

    Though he does have a thing for Israel-bashing Jews like Martin Indyck.

  • Rmic

    So sad that this snot nosed coward represents our country along with the vile subversive in the White House.

  • JohnfromToronto

    Why is it that the statement uses the transliterated Arabic ,but not the transliterated Hebrew for the Temple Mount? No bias there. Adopt the Pal’s view, hook, line and sinker.

  • Microaggressive

    Some Jews will look at Kerry and proclaim him a Christian. He is a Communist ally. He sides with anti-God forces. Jews that side with Communism are just as evil as Kerry.

    Now, Jesus did say that he is the only way, but nothing in this physical world matters for Christians. Jews should have their Temple.

    Lets see what happens.

    • Savingstone

      Have some humility and focus you efforts on doing good deeds and treating your fellow man with dignity and respect. Your fascistic sanctimony hearkens to Old World Europe where there was a satanic grip of Jew hatred on many Christians…are you so insecure in your beliefs that the very existence of Jews who don’t follow your’s threatens your faith? Don’t worry about Jews…1,500 + years of Christians “worrying” about Jews resulted in murder, rape, torture, pillaging, looting, captivity, and expulsion.

      It’s self righteous types like you that drove so many (stupid) Jews to the Democratic party, and 150 years before that to the communists and socialists, as they were the preeminent opposition to the ruling Christians that had inflicted such suffering upon the Jews in Europe.

      I appreciate most Christians as they are usually terrific God fearing people, but it’s types like you that really damage your cause.

      Worry about your own misdeeds and do your own repentance.

  • Justin St.Denis

    Lurch also hates soldiers and the armed forces generally. That is why he BETRAYED every single one of his army colleagues back during the Vietnam War.

  • bigbiz2

    I thought “Herman Munster” came out 20 years ago and proclaimed he was Jewish…must’ve been running for something.

  • Atikva

    It’s the same Kerry who just “apologized” to PM Netanyahu, emphasizing
    that the vulgar insults proffered against him under condition of anonymity by
    “Senior Obama Administration Officials” (according to the journalist who published them) do not – could never, ever, no way – reflect the position of the American government.

    Yeah, sure. Senior Obama Administration Officials are not, I repeat not, representative of the American Government. What then are these guys doing in said government?

    Mr. Kerry’s government, for its part, wants a Judenrein Israel, starting with
    Jerusalem – all the while maintaining a profound respect for Israel’s Jewish Prime Minister.

    It’s a mystery to me how PM Netanyahu can deal with these clowns with a straight face, staying always perfectly courteous. I know I couldn’t. His resilience is unbelievable; the Israelis are blessed with such a leader.

    • Will

      Jews seem to have a lot of experience with people lying about/to them. They take it a lot better than most of us would.

      • Atikva

        Maybe, but these particular liars, already famous for their zero
        credibility rating, should at least use a modicum of subtlety when they can’t stop their mouths – if only to avoid making a spectacle of themselves.

  • sydchaden

    When the Muslims controlled the Mount, Jews were banned from Jewish Holy Sites. Kerry, or more correctly, Obama and Kerry, are once again instituting that abomination. Israel was incredibly magnanimous when it allowed Muslim administrative control over the Al Aqsa Mosque. Israel could have granted the Muslims access, but retained control. As a result of this foolishness, “death to the Jews” is incited in the Mosque, and Muslims continue to attack Jews.
    Enough of this nonsense!

    Israel should implant explosives around the Al Aqsa Mosque, and declare that the next Muslim attack on Israel or Israelis will bring the destruction of the Mosque. That will put the survival of the Mosque squarely in the hands of the Islamic clerics. They can either issue Fatwas, prohibiting any attacks on Israel or Israelis, or, they can see their Mosque destroyed.

    If the strategy is successful, then the Muslims will continue to have their Mosque, and Israel will enjoy a respite from attacks.
    If the strategy is not successful, then Israel will be no worse off than it is now, surrounded by Muslim countries that want to destroy it.
    And, if the Mosque is destroyed, then Israel can clear the rubble, and commence reconstruction of the Jewish Temple.

    • Larry Larkin

      When muslims controlled the Mount, and Jerusalem as a whole, they ignored it.
      It was a decrepit run down backwater as far as they were concerned prior to the Crusades, good only for soaking money from Christian pilgrims.
      Post the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem it became another decrepit run down backwater until the British and Imperial forces took it in 1917. After which the British paid for the refurbishment of the Al Aqsa because it was about to fall down.
      Between 1948 and 1967 they didn’t give a damn about it, and it only became important again when Israel took back all of Jerusalem.

      Isreal should just bulldoze the entire precinct minus the West Wall and build the Third Temple.

    • chicagorefugee

      Ah, that sounds like my proposed “land for peace” deal: give the muslims their Palestinian state, but have them forfeit serious acreage for each subsequent attack. So many acres for each rocket, so many for each injury, so many for each death – concrete, on the ground, consequences, IOW, for Palestinian aggression.

      It’s the only way a land for peace deal could possibly not be suicidal for the Israelis, and thus will never happen.

  • joe kulak

    There is no moral equivalence between Israel and the Palestinians. There will never be peace until one side destroys the other. Since only Israel is a democracy and the Israelis will abide living side by side with the Palestinians while the Palestinians refuse to coexist, it is clear which side must eventually be crushed.

  • Diamond_Mair

    Since Solomon & David built their Temples long before the Pedophile Prophet was a gleam in his father’s eye, WHERE does Lurch get off dictating to Jews as to where they will pray ?
    I am so sick of pandering to Muslims ………………………
    Semper Fi’
    DM

    • AniTzioni

      Semper Fi my friend – and THANK YOU for your service to this once great nation, and soon to be again once we rid this country of the Socialist, Communist Radical Muslim loving filth inhabiting the US Government at this time.

      • Diamond_Mair

        Your lips to G-d’s ear, re: our rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the Øbama Folly.
        Semper Fi’
        DM

  • Diamond_Mair

    They still can:
    Crimes with no statute of limitations –
    If you kill someone: A charge of murder can be made at any time.
    Fraud and embezzlement: You will be looking over your shoulder forever.
    War Crimes: If you commit a series of crimes against humanity – a la Slobodan Milosevic – then you will never be forgiven just because you have lived a long happy life.
    Kidnapping: Do not think you can get away with taking someone’s children.
    Treason: Some of our famous spy cases have been prosecuted decades after the events took place. We never forgivetreason.
    Not paying back your federal student loans. The power to collect on defaulted student loan debt is vast. It is virtually without limit.

    Source: http://banktalk.org/2012/04/26/six-crimes-with-no-statute-of-limitations

    Semper Fi’
    DM

  • JayWye

    Get it right;it’s TRAITOR John Kerry.
    While still serving in the US military(not yet discharged from service),Traitor Kerry worked (aiding and abetting) with the North Vietnamese without official Government permission,while the US was still engaged in hostilities with N.Vietnam. that IS treason. He should suffer the consequences for that.

    NV considers Traitor Kerry to be one of their “heros”,and has a plaque commemorating him in their war museum.

  • kafir4life

    Kerry marries very, very well. He’s a tax cheat too.

  • terry hibbert

    KerryFairy Get on yor sailboat n get d hel outa d midle east b4 sum crazd Jihadi takes a knife 2 ya. Sail it bak 2 sum state wher d taxes arnt so hy.

    • ac287149

      I agree, but I was about to ask if you were a graduate of P.S. 135 ;)

  • Jane Sherry Gardner

    ..and John Kerry has Jewish ancestry .. that’s what makes his antics even more despicable.

    • Will

      So does George Soros, and THAT scum help the SS find jews in hiding so he could share in the loot that was stolen from them when they were sent to concentration camps. Dirt knows no bounds. Our political scene can be compared to a bucket of dirty laundry and soapy water, if you quit stirring for a minute, the scum floats to the top and the solids fall out on the bottom.

  • Tim McCaslin

    I think John Kerry’s experience in the military was closer to Deliverance than Platoon. I think that would explain his attitude toward soldiers.

  • wmartin46

    John Kerry supported the Communists in Viet Nam, rather than his own countries brave soldiers. He claimed to have thrown the medals he received for service “in country” in disgust .. only for us to find out later that the medals he threw away were not his. Kerry was involved with the fraudulant “Winter Soldier” dog-and-pony show. He went before Congress and made outlandish allegations about our soldiers–claiming that “we have created a nation of monsters” .. alleging that all of these soldiers would come home and commit heinous crimes against their neighbors. Kerry is about as low a creature that has risen to high places in the US political structure as one can find. The sooner he is gone, the better for everyone!

  • AniTzioni

    Hey folks – Kerry wants to ban Jews from going to the Temple Mount – let’s bar everyone from buying his anti-Semitic wife’s companies’ garbage. BOYCOTT HEINZ!!!!

  • c0mm0ncenz

    It seems as if a lot of the crazy stuff is happening lately to test us all regarding what side we choose. Now we have the discrimination against Jews praying on the Temple Mount. The chutzpah of anyone, be it Bibi or Skerry, to forbid any people group to PRAY is unbelievable. And not surprisingly, have we heard an outcry of apartheid against Jews from any liberal quarter? Where are the human rights activists? How incredulous that people should be forbidden to pray. If anyone still doesn’t believe we’re witnessing the carrying out of Hitler’s fantasy of a Jew-free world, they must not be reading the news. What are the Muslims thinking? Do they think G-d won’t hear prayers a few blocks away in the rest of Jerusalem? In Haifa? In New York? Do they think Allah will answer the Jew’s prayer if uttered on the mount? Is this a battle of the gods, like that of Elijah? That, friends, is the choice we’re all being given. Allah or the G-d of Jacob -which one will win?

  • Dan Nowotarski

    It appears to me that many in the Obama administration, no longer believes in Freedom of religion, they have been favoring and supporting radical Islamic Terrorists. They are a threat to our allies, our National Security, our Liberties and Freedoms, and they are a threat to the safety of every American citizen,

  • dan1701

    More of the same from Kerry. We must not cloud the issue with facts. We must appease Muslims and condemn Jews. Thankfully his words carry little weight. He needed a job and Obama gave him one, the wrong one. Kerry would be better suited to running Obama’s bath water, shining his shoes, getting the children ready for school in the morning and bringing Michelle her breakfast in bed.

  • Will

    What do you figure is Wrong with his head? Nutcases in Washington DC are prevalent.

  • Carol Chang

    Who died and made him “the decider” ? Why does he imagine he has the right to even an opinion on this issue ?