Waqf, Muslim groups urge boycott of Temple Mount over metal detectors

17 July 2017, 2:01 pm

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Islamic leaders are urging Muslims to boycott the Temple Mount in protest after Israel set up metal detectors at the site’s entrance gates following a deadly terror attack there last week.

The Waqf, together with other Islamic groups, issue a statement calling on Muslims “to reject and boycott all the Israeli aggression measures, including changing the historical status quo including imposing the metal detectors.”

They call on the faithful “not to deal with it at all and not to enter the mosque through it at all.” The statement further says that “if the metal detectors continue to be imposed, we call upon the people to pray in front of the gates of the mosque and in the streets of Jerusalem.”

— AP