After the Balfour Declaration, the Zionist institutions began to emphasize the Western Wall as a national symbol of the Jewish people, in addition to its religious significance.
This action led the Mufti of Jerusalem to claim that the Jews intended to take control of the Western Wall, so he declared the Wall with no religious or historical substantiation a holy Moslem site.
This wall of stones, to which the Muslims ascribed no importance, was thenceforth called El Buraq, after the name of the magical horse of the Prophet Mohammed.
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