Israeli police have reportedly detained a Palestinian cleric for “praying for Israeli policemen’s wives to become widows and for their children to become orphans.” The cleric’s words came in a sermon delivered on Friday to thousands of Palestinians praying on Friday outside the gates of the Temple Mount because of their refusal to pass through metal detectors. Spokeswoman Luba Al-Samri explained that such words “can have severe and dangerous consequences and that security forces are acting against incitement to “terrorism and violence, especially during the current period marked by many violent acts, disturbance of law, and aggression against Israeli police.” The actual charge is disturbance of the public order.