He's alluding to some prophetic beliefs shared by some jews and some evangelical christians that the temple of Jerusalem needs to be rebuilt again (on the place of the current al-Aqsa mosque). This same mosque is important in Islam because it is in the place where the prophet ascended to heaven.
If the temple is rebuilt (and some more things happen depending on the belief) some jews believe then that the messiah will come, and some evangelical christians believe instead that it starts the end of times, where good christians go to heaven.
> This same mosque is important in Islam because it is in the place where the prophet ascended to heaven.
Is it actually important in Islam? Or is it just a way for fundamentalists to make a claim to land that was historically Jewish? Islam was not invented until the 7th century. The temple ruins that the Al Aqsa mosque is built on is much older - by over a thousand years. I’ve also seen some Muslim scholars claim that the “real” Al-Aqsa is actually not on this site but elsewhere, and potentially lost over time.
>Is it actually important in Islam? Or is it just a way for fundamentalists to make a claim to land that was historically Jewish?
A little of both. Mohammed was sort of a weeb, but for jews. But the jews snubbed him, and he said he'd run off and start his own Abrahamic religion. So while it was just to make a claim to land, it was done right at the beginning, and nothing that any muslim alive today is guilty of... or even their great-great-grandparents, come to that.
If the temple is rebuilt (and some more things happen depending on the belief) some jews believe then that the messiah will come, and some evangelical christians believe instead that it starts the end of times, where good christians go to heaven.