jews: no church/mosque at ben gurion airport
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church and a mosque at Ben-Gurion International Airport for the past five
years, aviation sources told Haaretz.
This came to light after several clergy members wrote to the Israel
Airports Authority, requesting it allow for a church in Terminal 3.
Haaretz inquired, and learned that the plans for the new terminal
included both a church and a mosque, but that they never were built.
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IAA spokeswoman Ronit Ekstein said she "would rather not comment at
this stage."
The request for a church inside the terminal was made by one of the
leaders of the Belgian church in Jerusalem, Father Christian Eeckhout.
Eeckhout sent a letter to Eldad Yaniv, the IAA official responsible
for relations with aviation companies, and suggested that space inside the
terminal be allocated for a church, which would be used mostly by pilgrims
passing through.
He based his request in part on the fact that the airport has two
synagogues, one of them in Terminal 3.
The new terminal at Ben-Gurion, which opened in October 2004, was
supposed to have had a mosque and a church.
The IAA director of public complaints, Telma Shamir, confirmed this in
writing as early as 2003, in response to a letter by Eitan Heller.
Heller, a former Geocartography Institute employee who conducted
surveys at the airport on behalf of the tourism ministry, wrote to Shamir,
under the name Ahmed Beck from Jaffa, to complain that there was no mosque
at the airport.
Shamir responded to him in 2003: "I have checked the matter on several
occasions. Unfortunately, we cannot approve your request due to lack of
space in the current terminal ... but as we have learned from our mistakes,
space has been allocated for a worship area for Christians and Muslims at
the new terminal, which we hope to inaugurate next summer."
In 2006, then-IAA director issued an order to set up a prayer room for
Muslim passengers in Terminal 3. The mosque was supposed to have been
allocated 20 square meters, and include a library with copies of the Koran.
However, the mosque still does not exist.
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Are the flights out of that airport that bad, that one must pray for
survival before embarking? I see no reason for any kind of a church in
any Airport. Next you dumb bastards will want one at every McDonalds and
Starbucks.
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Burn the mosque down. Burn them all down.
Al Nakba
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churches yes, mosques, hell no!