1. Among the Muslims, the site and its two Muslim shrines, the Dome of the Rock and Al Aksa, are among the holiest of all Islamic sites. 2. Beaming, he said he had visited more Hindu temples than Muslim shrines. 3. A few years back, BJP leaders provoked a Hindu mob into smashing the ancient Muslim shrine at Ayodhya, igniting sectarian riots that killed thousands. 4. A rocket-propelled antitank grenade launcher rested against a wall mural of the Jerusalem skyline and the Muslim shrine of the Dome of the Rock mosque. 5. Enormous photographs of the Dome of the Rock, the sacred Muslim shrine in Jerusalem, decorated the walls before and behind him. 6. His desk was littered with office supplies and five Lucite bulbs holding models of the Kaaba, the holiest Muslim shrine in Mecca. 7. His parents were so poor they did not have a home of their own and raised the children in a dilapidated, one-room Muslim shrine structure. 8. In the process, he stumbles across a diabolical plot to blow up Muslim shrines as a means to hasten the coming of the Messiah or the Last Judgment. 9. Neither could there be any compromise on Palestinian sovereignty over East Jerusalem and its Muslim shrines, speakers said. 10. Ripped in half lay a poster showing Yasser Arafat superimposed over the Dome of the Rock, the Muslim shrine at the epicenter of this latest conflict. |