The destruction Of Ezekial's Tomb in Iraq.

This one of the saddest caese of silence from the West and Israel. A site as historic as this should be preserved for the ages. In Israel, sites such as these are saved and preserved even if they are Islamic or from other cultures and societies. Islam cannot say the same and the destruction of sites like this, approved and carried out under the cult of Islam, is disgusting.
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Ezekiel's Tomb on the Edge of Destruction

By Ariel Harkham




A short fifteen-minute drive outside Kerbala, Iraq, one can witness the frontlines of the clash between East and West, Islamism and progress. There, in the small town of Al-Kifl, lies -- at least at the time of this writing -- the 2,500-year-old Tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel. But for the first time in recorded history, the Tomb is threatened not by the collateral damage of war, nor the ignominies of thieves and bandits, but by a planned, government-authorized, and taxpayer-funded demolition.

The Jerusalem Post and various watchdog groups have reported that the Iraqi Cultural and Antiquities Authority are implementing plans to erect a mosque on top of Ezekiel's Tomb. Last month, the process began as the ancient Hebrew inscriptions adorning the inside of the Tomb were defaced, perhaps irrevocably, and covered over by plaster.

With the not-so-distant memory of the Taliban's destruction of Buddhist statuary in Afghanistan still in mind, the impending Islamification of the Jewish shrine of the Tomb might seem like the product of a uniquely modern cultural phenomenon. But in reality, the history of Ezekiel's Tomb reflects the millennial ebb and flow of Islamic power.

It was only once the Ottoman period ended that the tomb was wrested from Islamic control and returned to Jewish custodianship; and, strangely, it was under the Ba'athist Saddam Hussein that the site was restored and actually protected from destruction. But today, as Islamist power congeals across the globe, the Tomb faces perhaps its greatest and most imminent threat.

This current threat mirrors Ezekiel's own prophetic life -- and in this way, it is a continuance of his prophecy. Ezekiel prophesied in a turbulent and uncertain time in Jewish history, leading a defeated people from the destruction of Jerusalem to the rivers of Babylon. He was on the forefront of a cultural war, where his vision of a new Jewish reality-in-exile could confront those who wished to forget the tragedies of their past, wipe away their identity, and disappear.

Today, the Jewish people is again fighting for its life, this time in a battle against the de-legitimization of its first state in more than two millennia. Much of the hateful fodder fueling Israel's enemies in this war comes from Islamist sources, who have deployed the myth of Zionism as a European colonialist invention of the 19th century that has no relation to Jewish history, nor to its spiritual legacy.

But it is Ezekiel and his timeless vision that stand at the forefront of making such claims preposterous. The Prophet dreamed of a future renewal while his people were in the introductory stage of a nightmarish and traumatic exile. It was Ezekiel who provided the people a message of a better day, a time of redemption when the Jews would be ingathered and return to Zion, with humanity redeemed. He inspired the Jewish people in their darkest hour to never forget its ethical legacy and to never stop believing in a better tomorrow. Continue reading


American Thinker

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/ezekiels_tomb_on_the_edge_of_d.html