mixins'

In these readings I found a lot of things that made me question the ability to see things in a clear view. In one sentence, Armstrong writes that " The Muslims' arrival in Jerusalem was an event of immense importance." and then one page later, "the Jews and Christians of Palestine became "protected minorities", they had to give up all means of self defense and could not bear arms." What did she mean by immense importance? Was she talking about the fact that later led them to inhabit the city as all three faiths before Crusades or was she saying it was important for the Muslim Identity? It becomes unclear to me in these two pages by how she feels about the Muslim effect on the cities already disputed territory. But then, I continued reading to hear more about this idea of maybe allowing these religions to take their differences and unite them through their similarities.

She writes about how just a temple can mean something to both religions, even though they think of each other so different. "Both Jews and Muslims came to regard the Rock as the foundation of the Temple, the center of the world, the entrance to the Garden of Eden and the source of fertility."I wonder if the world thought about all things like this. For instance, every person on this earth is a part of a community of all living things, and some of the things that are naturally a part of this world are immensely important to all people. Say you get to climb Mount Fitz Roy in Patagonia or stand at the edge of the Grand Canyon or bathe in the Dead Sea, no matter what background you come for I imagine the feeling all people that get to experience it.

 "The experience of living together in a city that was sacred to all three faiths could have led monotheists to a better understanding of one another." We all are a part of something so much bigger than we realize. Living among people who are different in an area that is special to all, can make you respect and love those differences. If only our governments and leaders of faiths  fought for a world where we can agree to disagree.