Grand mufti: There was never a Jewish Temple on Temple Mount

Note, this is the current Grand mufti, not the Grand mufti Netanyahu spoke about last week.

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Grand-mufti-There-was-never-a-Jewish-Temple-on-Temple-Mount-430131

Strong criticism was leveled on Monday at Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, who claimed on Sunday that a Jewish Temple never existed on the Temple Mount.

Asked in a interview with Channel 2 if he accepts that the Jewish Temple existed at the site, the mufti said “the Aksa Mosque was an Islamic mosque since the world was created.”

He added, “It was never anything other than a mosque.”

Hussein was appointed as mufti by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in 2006.



Note also, there is evidence discussed elsewhere that there was in fact a Jewish Temple on the appropriately named Temple Mount.