I want to be like Caliph Umar said Saladin to his men: when his armies won all of Palestine in the early days of Islam, he took Jerusalem peacefully and entered the town like a poor man, on foot. The Patriarch Sophronius gave him the keys of the town after they made a peace agreement. It said that the Franks, their houses and churches were safe, and that they could pray in the way they wanted, and that no Muslim was going to hurt them or take their money. Then Umar visited the town with the Patriarch. When he saw that people used the Holy Mount in the middle of the town as a place for rubbish, he started to clean it with his own hands. Then he asked men to build what is now the Al-Aqsa Mosque there. After that, when he went with the Patriarch to see the church where they buried Jesus, it was time to pray. Umar left the church to pray outside. He said T I pray inside the church, then one day other Muslims will want to make it into a mosque!" He was generous to all religions. We agree that we don't want to hurt people in the town. But the Franks fight to the last man!" Saladin's generals said. When Saladin met the Franks. he said, 'I think like you that Jerusalem is the city of God. I don't want to attack God's home. So, if you surrender then you will all be free to leave it with your things. Your churches will be safe, and when people want to make a pilgrimage to the holy places. they can travel freely into the town at any time.