Calanen wrote on Nov 2
nd, 2012 at 2:49pm:
Do you even know who St. Joseph is??? Clearly not! He was the step-father of Jesus (pbuh). Obviously you have confused him with someone else.
The tomb you've pictured there is clearly that which is claimed to be of Prophet Joseph (pbuh) not St. Joseph, don't worry though, you're only about 2000 years off.
And I find it rather strange how Muslims ruled over that site for about 1200 years, and no destruction befell it, yet within a few decades of the Zionist entity entering into the land, it was all of a sudden fought over and damaged. Also as we can see, it's Palestinian secularists (ie. PLO) who are desecrating it, not Muslims.
In fact if we read about the history of the tomb, we find it's the Christians who posed the most risk to it throughout the ages.
"At key points in its long history, Joseph's Tomb has witnessed intense sectarian conflict. Samaritans and Christians disputing access and title to the site in the early Byzantine period often engaged in violent clashes"
"After Israel captured the West Bank in 1967, Muslims were prohibited from worship at the shrine and it was gradually turned into a Jewish prayer room."
"An imperial commission was dispatched to retrieve the bones of the Patriarchs around 415 CE, and on failing to obtain them at Hebron, sought to at least secure Joseph’s bones from Shechem. No gravestone marked the exact site, possibly because the Samaritans had removed one to avoid Christian interference. The officials had to excavate the general area where graves abound and, on finding an intact marble sepulchre beneath an empty coffin, concluded that it must contain Joseph’s bones, and sent the sarcophagus to Byzantium, where it was incorporated into Hagia Sophia.̰"Besides, this tomb is a Muslim site anyway, not the site of Prophet Joseph (pbuh), it was the tomb of a Muslim Sheikh Yusef from about 200 years ago.
"Local residents apparently believed the structure entombed a 19th-century cleric who was reputed to have healed the sick by reciting Koranic verses."
"Shulamit Aloni, minister for culture and education in the Rabin government, outraged religious activists at the time by asserting, on the basis of archeological evidence, that the site was only 200 years old, and the tomb that of Sheikh Yūsuf (Dawiqat)."The Zionists then desecrated the site by converting it from a mosque into a Synagogue:
"Attaching the religious tradition surrounding the story of Joseph to the site, the settlers received protection from the IDF to transform this place of Muslim worship into one of their own."But nevermind these facts, like with the Churches in Kosovo, spin it as it suits you. Leave the fact of 200 mosques being destroyed aside, and the fact this tomb was a mosque also. Also nevermind telling the truth that it was not the tomb that was ransacked, but the Jewish study centre that was built onto it... all these things are unimportant right? So long as you get to spin your usual bovine faeces.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph's_Tomb
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