SANAA, June 15 (YPA) – The continued disparagement of Islamic holy sites and religious symbols by political leaders in the United States reflects a fixed and systematic policy that goes beyond individual behavior, revealing the depth of hostility directed at the Islamic world and its spiritual foundations.
This was recently manifested in the explicit insult directed by the US president Donald Trump at the holiest site on earth, Mecca and the Holy Kaaba, through the publication of an offensive image on his “Truth Social” account, which provoked the feelings of Muslims across the world.
This conduct by a U.S. president demonstrates, beyond any doubt, that insults against sacred symbols in Washington have become an official orientation and general behavior within the United States, rather than isolated incidents.
The timing and context of this insult also clearly reflect Trump’s close ideological alignment with Zionism, which—alongside its Western supporters—promotes a systematic hostile agenda targeting Islamic sanctities, with the aim of undermining the religious and spiritual identity of the Muslim nation and weakening its cohesion in order to facilitate colonial projects in the region. This is supported by historical examples highlighting this connection.
In May 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by his son-in-law Jared Kushner, visited the Western Wall in occupied city of Al Quds under heavy security measures, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site.
He placed his right hand on the wall and, according to Zionist tradition, inserted a note containing prayers and wishes between its stones—an open act of alignment with the Zionist project and its efforts to Judaize Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem and strip them of their Arab identity.
During that visit, Trump went without any officials in the Israeli entity accompanying him in the immediate space, giving the visit a symbolic ideological character.
He was accompanied by the Zionist rabbi responsible for the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitch, and entered the men’s section, while his daughter Ivanka and his wife Melania visited the women’s section—an arrangement presented as reflecting a fully aligned ideological and political commitment to serving the Zionist agenda.
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