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The Anti-Millennium: The Islamization of Nazareth

The Anti-Millennium: The Islamization of Nazareth

April 16, 2000 | Raphael Israeli
On 21 December 1997, just four days before Christmas, Muslim zealots fenced in the area at the foot of the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, declared it waqf land (a Muslim holy endowment), erected a large tent as a provisional mosque, and demanded the construction of a permanent mosque with a towering 86-meter minaret.