Talk:Denis Michael Rohan

message: As I got into the process of creating this article I began to wonder whether there is a reason why no one else has written about this subject before. It seems so loaded and destined to provoke POV responses from Arabs, Muslims, Israelis, Jews, Christians, Worldwide Church of God and all of its many breakaway factions, Australians and who knows who else? It is almost as conspiratorial as a biographical entry for Lee Harvey Oswald in trying to address the question of why he shot President Kennedy ... assuming that he did shoot President Kennedy. So if you are reading these words please understand that in putting together the article that I am not trying to take any side but to report upon an incident which in turn has led to many continuing acts of killing and destruction which have been performed in the name of this one initial act of arson. I also need to point out that in 1968 when this event took place, the Worldwide Church of God was not accepted as a mainstream Christian religion but as a cult which had emerged by blending together various beliefs from different religions and all of that was glued together by a very specific chain of prophecy distributed via a multi-million dollar publishing and broadcasting empire. MPLX/MH 19:11, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Mustafaa: That sounds like a good idea. Sorry I cannot help you immediately with the information that you are looking for, but the best sources are: a) official Israeli government records since they took him into custody; b) the omnibus web site of everything about Armstrong that originates from New Zealand and the webmaster's name is Gavin (I am not Gavin.) Also, you might want to check out Ernest L. Martin. This is an article that I have been building that is also related to both the Temple Mount; the Ambassador/Hebrew University digs and therefore Herbert W. Armstrong. Martin held in a book that the son of Dr. Mazar held that the Temple had been mislocated on Temple Mount. There is a related web site and book if you follow the links. Lot's of luck. This seems to only add more fuel to the fire, but this time to the idea that Rohan had the wrong location to begin with and therefore ... everyone else who thinks that the Temple was on Temple Mount is also mistaken. You should have lots of fun with that (tongue in cheek), meaning that everyone will start throwing bricks in the direction of your new article. Such are the joys of writing about controversial matters, you can end up with no one liking what you write. Just be sure to document everything! MPLX/MH 23:20, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Older

message: I am wondering why this article is at :Michael Dennis Rohan rather than, say :1969 al-Aqsa mosque arson  Only two or three sentences of quite a long article describe Rohan; the rest is about the arson and the international response to it.  jnestorius(talk) 22:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has a web feature on Mr Rohan with some interesting material.  One of the things that can be seen there is an Australian identity document.  His name written there is "Denis Michael ROHAN" - note the order of the words and the number of "n"s in "Denis".  This type of document is not so solid proof of name as a passport, but anyway I wonder if the name of our article is actually wrong.  Zerotalk 07:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ABC web feature; his name 

message: At present the article tells us about Rohan's motives, followed by some reactions to his attempt. A section telling us what actually happenned on August 21 1969 is missing. ליאור (talk) 20:09, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. Exactly what I was going to point out. I know this is an extremely touchy subject, but this article is MOST unsatisfactory. It gives us almost no picture of the man himself and his background, the event itself (him setting fire to the mosque), the level of damage to the mosque, his trial and the legal process by which he was found insane, details of his mental issues / ilnesses (schitzophrenia, according to the court's findings), what happened to him post-deportation, etc, etc. Instead, way too much space is spent on "responses" by various parties, which, whilst perhaps important, are secondary. Can someone do some research and fix these issues? 58.165.79.107 (talk) 13:27, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: ooook, thanks to a fellow wikipedian's mention above, I checked the Australian Archives (naa.gov.au) - and sure enough, PLENTY of info on this guy and this incident, including the exact sequence of events on the day, the trial, the full judgement of the court, the Australian Government's actions in relation to the case, and its' communications with the Israeli government. I'm not a brilliant Wikipedian, but does anyone feel like mining this trove and adding some crucial info to this artice? 
Also, I can't seem to find any info on his subsequent life post-deportation. Any leads? 58.168.19.226 (talk) 17:12, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's the beef? 

message: The Dome of the Rock is the central shrine on the Temple Mount. The Al Aksa is the mosque at the southern wall. Which is it?
My understanding is that he set a fire in the Dome of the Rock.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.12.28.5 (talk) 15:42, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It was the southern mosque. Onceinawhile (talk) 20:30, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dome of the Rock or Al Aksa? 

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message: I've tried to change the  article name to the 1969 "burning of Al Aqsa mosque" , but it says the article is protected from vandalism"!!  I wonder why there is an insistence from the article writer and wikipedia to not change it ?! It doesn't take a rocket science to realize that this is a pro Israel article title to divert people attention away from that tragic accident ; to not let as many people as they could from finding this article on wikipedia. This is a shameful act ; to suppress people rights to learn about historical events. This must be corrected immediately Alw88 (talk) 11:50, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: See new article at Al-Aqsa mosque fire. Onceinawhile (talk) 20:30, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name is wrong, why the insistence on not changing it? 

message: Second to last sentence of second paragraph reads: "Some sources claimed that he had died in 1995, but a 2009 investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) found that was still alive."
Someone with permission should fix. Callum Cuda (talk) 06:30, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed, thanks. Zerotalk 08:53, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar mistake? 

message: Denis Michael Rohan was an Evanalangical Fundamentalist Christian Terrorist who attacked The Muslim Masjid Al-Aqsa. 108.28.9.131 (talk) 17:17, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 20:57, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 23 May 2024