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Bar-Ilan University opens Muslim prayer room
Itay Blumenthal, Shachar Chai
Published: 21.02.14, 14:39
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1. Kol Hakavod to Bar Ilan University!
A Jerusalemite ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (02.21.14)
2. Please explain ....
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (02.21.14)
What is "respectful" about putting your head on the ground and pointing your hindquarters to the heavens? Of course it goes without saying that each and every one of those 500 students either served in the IDF or performed some form of national service, right? Otherwise, they wouldn't be eligible for university, isn't that so? I'd also be interested in knowing how many of them actually pay tuition.
3. Will there be a Synagog?
David Israel ,   New York, USA   (02.21.14)
Will there be a Synagog at the Riyadh University also for the Jewish students to pray?
4. #2, Sarah B, exactly.
Jake   (02.21.14)
And note how when they pray on Temple Mount, their hind quarters are pointing towards the Dome of the Rock and the rest of the city of Jerusalem. So much for "the 3rd holiest site in Islam".
5. Inconceivable
(02.21.14)
Maybe the mathematics department can solve the equation Y-WH = a-lah. Whose land is this anyway?
6. No 3 there are NO Jewish student in Ryhad uni
(02.21.14)
And no1 you're despicable. European airports offer prayer rooms for the three main abrahamic religions (yes that includes the one you belong too) and we find it very normal.
7. # 2 Please explain ...
Daniel   (02.21.14)
Did you serve in the IDF? We'd all be interested in knowning what you ever did for Israel, apart from giving it a bad name at discussion forums. I don't know how many of these Muslim students served in the IDF, but chances are that each and every one of them has served Israel more than you ever did.
8. #6 Thankyou for reminding me that
David Israel ,   New York, USA   (02.21.14)
There are no Jewish students at Riyadh University. Furthermore it is almost impossible for a Jew to get a VISA for Saudi Arabia. In fact in 1970ies many Turkish Muslims who had business relations in Saudi Arabia and wanted to visit Israel had to get their Israel VISA on a separate paper not connected to their passport so that they would not be black listed by Saudis. Plus: Considering that there are over 1 Million Israeli Arabs, which country is Apartheid? Israel or Saudi Arabia?
9. should no be allowed..
Beary White ,   Norway   (02.21.14)
their god supports terrorism....of non-islamic-cult-followers...
10. #7 I Noticed you left out YOUR location...
Ilan ,   Ramat Gan, Israel   (02.21.14)
I don't think you have to worry about people on forums giving Israel a bad name. People will always seek out ways to blame us for all the wrong in the world. I don't always agree with Sarah,but she is entitled to her opinion. Who are you to judge? on one side, I have had the pleasure of meeting Muslims who have served the IDF in a way that puts most Israelis to shame.(including myself) On the other hand Jewish American communities (regardless of them being actual Israeli or even reform) have done more for Israel than you can even comprehend. Don't be a Douche!
11. To: No. 7
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (02.21.14)
Yes, dear, I served in the IDF. I was an officer. Following active duty, I performed milluim. How have you served Israel? And I do not mean working as a waiter in some Jaffa dive. By the way, the plural of "forum" is "fora." Now you've learned something you did not know, and it will help you should you one day decide not to present yourself as an illiterate oaf.
12. Will Al Azhar University in Cairo reciprocate with synagoge?
Jack ,   San Diego, USA   (02.21.14)
Israeli academicians and leftists are what the prophet Isaiah referred to when he prophesied that "from amongst you shall arise those who will seek to destroy you."
13. #2
Bar-Chama ,   Santa Fe   (02.21.14)
And the same can be said about the almost idol worshiping at the Western Wall? What's so respectful about that? I mean, we go, we touch, we cry and we leave notes to a piece of cement?
14. To: No. 13
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (02.22.14)
I'm sorry, but do you really mean to equate Jewish worship at the Kotel and the reverence and awe of this most tangible symbol of our absolute right to Jerusalem to Moslems presenting their buttocks to the heavens? Did you know that the reason that Sharia commands that thieves have their right hand chopped off is because that forever excludes them from Moslem community? No one can sit with them at table, because the right hand is used for eating and the left hand reserved for cleansing following the exercise of bodily functions. In Islamic society, no one will shake another person's left hand because again, that is the hand reserved for cleaning. Cleaning of that bodily part that they offer up in worship of the divine. By the way .... the Kotel is not cement. It is stone. Don't you know anything?
15. #14
Bar-Chama ,   Santa Fe   (02.22.14)
I don't think we should be too quick to judge they way people worship. After all, our own way is not a made up form as well. What make you think our way is the correct one? Maybe the Muslims are onto something while presenting their buttocks to the heavens or the sky. What do we know? We have been duped all these years in some abstract notion about the existence of God. We complain when Denmark decided to ban Kosher slaughter but we will spit at our own citizens in Israel simple because they are not Jews. All I am seeing are a whole heaps of double standards.
16. sarah ,11 . Another lie ? you in the IDF ?
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (02.23.14)
The same as your "Sbarro" tale or your : "a successful lawyer for more than 50 years" . Those are only the two on the top of your list of lies .
17. Pretty strange policy for a racist, apartheid society
A ,   Belgium   (02.24.14)
as so many ignorant talkbackers would like to believe Israel is.
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