One of the outer walls of the Dome of the Rock building 'adorned' with Islamic terrorist ISIS flag.

One of the outer walls of the Dome of the Rock building 'adorned' with Islamic terrorist ISIS flag. HT: Algemeiner.

On the Temple Mount, a photograph recently submitted to The Algemeiner shows an ISIS banner posted high up on one of the outer walls of the Dome of the Rock building, possibly a sign of the group’s presence right near Judaism’s holiest site, the Western Wall.

Arab affairs specialist Dr. Michael Widlanski, a professor at Bar Ilan University,  told The Algemeiner of the poster that “it is important to pay attention to signs like this, even though we do not know the extent of such feeling.”

“It could be like just one person writing graffiti. Still, it is clear that especially in tough and authoritarian neighborhoods, nothing succeeds like success. ISIS is succeeding,” Widlanski said.

“Its forces have conquered a remarkable swath of territory in Syria and Iraq and have decreed a new caliphate, modeling themselves after the early ‘true’ caliphate of the first four successors to Muhammad. That was an aggressive and expansionist caliphate, not a model for moderate Islam.”

“Israel lives in the rough neighborhood bordered by Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq—all of which have been involved in wars against Israel,” he said.

”In all of them, there is dramatic foment by what we might call salafi Sunni movements close to the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda or ISIS and the like, as well as by extreme Shiite movements that are closer to Iran.

These extreme movements feel they have the right to employ terror to ‘cleanse’ Islam from within, killing or throwing out non-Muslim foreigners and—even  more importantly to them—Muslims who have strayed from the path.” Read the full story here.