Islam's past cast in stone

Copyright © 2005 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc. ^ | 7/30/05 | cp124

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those graves sure don't look very old.

Do some research and I'd bet that CAIR and their Saudi funders paid to have the ramshackle former stones replaced with these uniform, minaret-looking ones, which were never used in 1918--as a prelude to this public relations campaign.

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Bet that the graves have never been defiled. We know what would happen to Christian or Jewish graves in the lands of Islam.

Jewish and Christian graves in Muslim lands no longer exist. Even on the most sacred Jewish land, Jersualem, this is what happened when Jordan had military control...

" In violation of the Armistice Agreement, Jordan denied Israelis access to the Temple Wall and to the cemetery on the Mount of Olives, where Jews have been burying their dead for 2,500 years. Jordan actually went further and desecrated Jewish holy places. King Hussein permitted the construction of a road to the Intercontinental Hotel across the Mount of Olives cemetery. Hundreds of Jewish graves were destroyed by a highway that could have easily been built elsewhere. The gravestones, honoring the memory of rabbis and sages, were used by the engineer corps of the Jordanian Arab Legion as pavement and latrines in army camps. The ancient Jewish Quarter of the Old City was ravaged, 58 Jerusalem synagogues — some centuries old — were destroyed or ruined, others were turned into stables and chicken coops. Slum dwellings were built abutting the Western Wall."