Al-Aqsa Mosque is in peril.
For decades, Muslims have been warned that the status quo surrounding Islam’s third holiest site was becoming increasingly fragile. Today, those warnings no longer seem speculative.
Discussions about altering the site’s administration, expanding non-Muslim religious access, and ultimately transforming its character have moved from the political margins towards the mainstream of Israeli public discourse.
Many Muslims fear that these developments are part of a longer-term project that seeks not merely to oversee Al-Aqsa, but to fundamentally alter it. Whether one believes such an outcome is imminent or distant, the trajectory is clear enough to provoke an urgent question: what is the global Muslim community prepared to do to prevent it?
The question is especially pressing after Gaza. For nearly three years, Muslims around the world have watched Palestinians endure extraordinary levels of violence, displacement, deprivation and destruction.
