Speaking at the opening of a film on Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi of Rome explained that the Koran supports a Jewish Jerusalem.   “No one questions the rights of Catholics to St Peter’s, or of Muslims to Mecca, but so many question the rights of Jews to Jerusalem,” he said at a London synagogue on Jerusalem Day.

Interpreting a passage from the Koran, he said that “even if Jews were expelled from the city and scattered all over the world, the time will come when they will be running to the city, coming from every different place.”  This parallels the verse in Deuteronomy 30:4 “If any of thine that are dispersed be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will He fetch thee.”