Sunday's Brian Cox fronted programme, The Wonders of The Solar System, was a great watch and what BBC TV should be like. However even this programme had a dhimmi nod. It started in the 4th or 5th (I forget which) holiest site in Islam, a Mosque in Tunisia, where an awed Brian Cox explained the antiquity and when the five daily prayers were said. As I watched this I started to wonder how many 'holy' sites are graded by Islam? Is there a top 10, a top 20, a top 100? Are their positions fixed or is there any movement? If the latter will in the future Radio 1 give us the latest top 40 Islamic holy sites countdown on a Sunday night?
So this morning I was reminded of the BBC's habit of referring to the Al-Aqsa mosque as Islam's third holiest site, but never referring to the Western (Wailing) Wall of Herod's temple as Judaism's holiest site. I wonder why?
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What you say makes sense. IT didn't really make much sense what brian cox did at the start, God knows why. I myself am a muslim and so can appreciated the beauty of that mosque. But bbc probably refers to the Al Aqsa mosque as the third holiest site for Islam as it was mentioned by the Prophet Muhammed peace be upon him.
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