Israel bulldozes Muslim graveyard

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Israeli construction crew members bulldoze their way through a Muslim burial ground, reportedly removing hundreds of gravestones and injuring a protesting Arab.

The team on Monday rampaged through graves in the ancient al-Quds (Jerusalem) Maaman Allah cemetery, carrying on until Tuesday, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported.

"The destruction is related to the issue of renovation. The Israeli establishment does not want us to renovate the graves so it is destroying them," said Mahmud Abu Atta of the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage, which is responsible for the oversight of Muslim religious sites, AFP reported.

A bulldozer hit and moderately injured Ali Abu Sheikha, a local sheikh, who had stood up to the act of desecration, Ma'an said.

The incident marked the most destructive of its kind since 2009, when 1,500 bodies were exhumed for the construction of the controversial Museum of Tolerance. The planned building is to be built by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a US-based Jewish human rights group.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=138213&sectionid=351020202

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...1,500 bodies were exhumed for the construction of the controversial Museum of Tolerance. The planned building is to be built by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a US-based Jewish human rights group.

classic.

[Jenn! 918]

I'm sure it will be argued that Muslims wouldn't hesitate to bulldoze a Jewish graveyard. Doesn't make it right. I feel terrible for the affected families.

Edited August 12, 2010 by Jenn!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Arab League squeals as Israel removes fake Muslim graves

The Arab League at the weekend dramatically condemned Israel's "heinous crime" of removing a number of phony Muslim graves that had only recently been erected in a downtown Jerusalem park.

The eastern corner of Independence Park in downtown Jerusalem is indeed home to a small centuries-old Muslim graveyard. The graveyard is under the supervision of the same Islamic Trust (Waqf) that administers the Temple Mount.

Last week, an Arutz 7 radio reporter discovered that Waqf bulldozers and trucks operating at the site were not only refurbishing the old graves, but were actually erecting new graves in areas of the park not previously part of the cemetery.

Of course, no one was buried under the new graves, which were merely an attempt to extend Waqf control over the central Jerusalem park.

In response, the Jerusalem Municipality removed the phony graves, prompting Arab League Assistant Secretary General for Palestinian Affairs Mohamed Sobeih to lash out at the Jewish state in hopes of creating an international incident.

"The Arab League is closely following up this heinous crime," said Sobeih. "Israel is destroying the Muslims' graves when Arabs are restoring the Jewish ones everywhere in the world."

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=21658

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Arab League squeals as Israel removes fake Muslim graves

"squeals"? keep it classy, israel.

[mawilson 2,133]

I'm sure it will be argued that Muslims wouldn't hesitate to bulldoze a Jewish graveyard.

I don't think that's true - Muslims will be happy to build lots and lots of new graveyards for the Jews.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I don't think that's true - Muslims will be happy to build lots and lots of new graveyards for the Jews.

And terrorists would love to fill them.

[PhiLandShiR 18]

They built 3000 of them in downtown New York alone....