The question must be asked and returned to repeatedly until a response is forthcoming: why is it that Islam is so formidably averse to acknowledging the equal rights of those who praise and are faithful to a religion other than Islam?

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An equally urgent question is why is it that Muslims in general and Palestinians in particular feel it is just and simply their due that they must monopolize an ancient site sacred to Judaism, refusing to permit Jews access to the foremost revered symbol of their religion and culture while Muslims are free to pray at the same site which they claim as their third most holy?

The funerals of Aryeh Kupinsky and Cary William Levine, both Israeli-American, and British-Israeli Avraham Goldberg have also been attended by thousands. Their three coffins were displayed next to each other.

And why is it that Muslims who declare their religion to be one of peace and harmony will march in furious and violent torment inflicting harm on others on the suspicion that those 'others' have spurned Islam or in some manner defiled the memory and the dignity of Prophet Mohammed, while as purportedly civil human beings in obedience to their god, there are no such marches or campaigns to defy and condemn the violence perpetrated around the world on helpless Muslims and non-Muslims alike in the name of their sacred religion?


Why as well, is it that an organized political movement albeit with a tribal victimhood ideology fostering revenge, can incite its dependents to violence while simultaneously aspiring to responsible statehood and in so doing receiving the support of Western civilized countries, yet all are mute in the face of one terrorist act of murderous violence after another launched by Palestinians against Israeli citizens?

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  Israeli police and rescue workers outside the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue in Jerusalem after a terror attack there on November 18, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindler/FLASH90)
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  Ultra-orthodox Jewish men stand inside the entrance of a synagogue that was attacked by two Palestinians earlier in the morning in the ultra-Orthodox Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem on November 18, 2014. The Hebrew writing in candles says "House of God." (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)
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  Israeli police outside the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue in Jerusalem after a terror attack there on November 18, 2014. The bodies of two terrorists covered with plastic are seen on the ground. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindler/FLASH90)
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  Police and ZAKA crews outside the Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue, where two terrorists attacked Jewish congregants during prayer on November 18, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/ flash 90)
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  People outside the scene of a terror attack in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood on November 18, 2014. (photo credit: Marissa Newman / Times of Israel)
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  Israeli Zaka emergency services volunteers carry the body of a Palestinian assailant who was shot dead while attacking a synagogue in Jerusalem on November 18, 2014. (photo credit: AFP / GALI TIBBON)
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  Blood on prayer shawls and prayer books seen inside the synagogue where four people were killed in Jerusalem on November 18, 2014. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90)
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  Bystanders in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood at the scene of a terror attack in a synagogue that left at least four dead (photo credit: Times of Israel/Marissa Newman)
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  Israeli emergency services personnel gathers blood and other human remains from the sidewalk for proper burial at the scene of an attack, by two Palestinians, on Israeli worshippers at a synagogue in the ultra-Orthodox Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem on November 18, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Jack Guez)
   

The latest carnage to take place in Israel at the hands of Palestinian terrorists, striking ostensibly in defence of the al-Aqsa mosque located on what Muslims refer to as the Noble Sanctuary and Jews call the Temple Mount where they are not permitted to build a synagogue, much less pray at their ancient heritage site has drawn praise from across the Muslim world.

Why is that?