If it was a Jewish or Christian cemetary, he'd not only tell everyone "full speed ahead", but he'd dig the first spadeful of soil for the site.
Posted on 12/28/2005 10:52:27 AM PST by Alouette
Sheikh Raed Salah says land for Museum of Tolerance is site of ancient Muslim cemetery: ‘You are committing a historic and religious crime against all human values of major religions’
A Muslim Arab Israeli leader on Wednesday lashed out at Israel plans to build the Museum of Tolerance on what he claims are the ruins of Muslim graves in Jerusalem.
Sheikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement held a joint press conference with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Akrama Sabri, Wednesday evening.
“It’s a major scandal for Israeli institutions to set up an institution for tolerance on the bones of dead Muslims, on a Muslim cemetery where friends of the prophet Mohammad are buried,” Salah said.
“We ask? Which tolerance are you talking about? Why are you distorting and forging? You are committing a historic and religious crime against all human values of major religions,” Salah added.
Salah prayed near the cemetery where he picked pieces of glass which he said belong to glasses used by Jews to drink alcohol over Muslim graves.
“That’s part of Jewish religious rituals. Over Passover a lot of people come here to drink alcohol and for the view – these are pieces from broken alcohol bottles. Drinking alcohol near my father’s grave is no doubt a crime. That’s Israeli mockery of 1.5 billion Muslims,” Salah said.
Salah called on Muslim religious leaders, ambassadors of Muslim countries and the international community to protest: “I call on all judges to come see this crime. I call on all Arab and Muslim ambassadors in Tel Aviv to come see how they walk on our history. We came here to tell the whole world that it’s a scandal. We’ll speak about this from the platform of the Al-Aqsa mosque and all mosques and we will do everything to stop this crime.”
Schwarzenegger insulted our history
Khalif Omar Ibn El-Khattab, 1400 years ago. “We have documents in the Muslim Waqf proving that all this area which includes 200 dunam (50 acres) is a Muslim cemetery. What have they done? They laid roads, created public parks and erected hotels.”
Salah and the Mufti of Jerusalem said they are not willing to compromise. “The cemetery is Muslim in its entirety. It is forbidden to take even one centimeter of it. That’s a crime that has been going on since 1948, when Waqf lands were expropriated. Since then many mosques were turned into pubs, brothels, cafes and places to take drugs,” Salah said.
“The cemetery is Muslim and Israel has no right to decide on the issue,” Salah added.
Salah did not save California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger his criticism, accusing the former Hollywood star of placing the cornerstone for the museum during a visit to Israel in 2004.
“I am telling this film actor that he participated in placing the cornerstone and therefore he insulted our history and on the dignity of our graves,” Salah said.
Whether or not this land is a Muslim cemetery, the Arabs used Jewish headstones from the Mount of Olive to pave roads and build latrines.
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But THESE are muslim graves. < /sarcasm >
Um . . . why is there a "Museum of Tolerance" in the Holy Land where the practice of non-Jewish religions is Halakhically forbidden?
Looks like Joshua didn't understand his mission!
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“That’s part of Jewish religious rituals. Over Passover a lot of people come here to drink alcohol and for the view – these are pieces from broken alcohol bottles. Drinking alcohol near my father’s grave is no doubt a crime. That’s Israeli mockery of 1.5 billion Muslims,”
Be tolerant, Saleh. That's my favorite part of Passover, taking the family to the local Muslim cemetary and getting drunk. Takes my mind off the blood in the matzo.
I'm kind of inclined to agree. The Israelis might want to consider instead making it an institution for the detailing of Muslim atrocities.
He's absolutely right! It should be called the "Museum of Muslim Intolerance".
I doubt that there is anywhere within a hundred miles of Jerusalem that you can start digging and NOT dig up someone from some time or another. Jebusites, Hittites, Canaanites, Romans, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Ottomans, etc........It's gonna be very crowded there on Judgement Day!.......
Front row seats for the Resurrection.
Since it was common practice to bury people outside the "city", and the "city" has been redefined 100s of times, I'll bet the bodies of people lie underneath 50% of any given acre in any given "old" city in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Better an Israeli than an Irishman let any alcohol fall on an Islamic grave. The Irishman will pass it through his kidneys first!
I'll bring the popcorn, God will provide the heat..........
I think it is almost poetic.
Odds are 10 to 1 this is a lie.
But on the remote chance its true, it's appropriate. Tolerance can only exist where Islam is buried.
I've long thought that the path to tolerance will be paved with a lot of dead Muslims.
***“The cemetery is Muslim and Israel has no right to decide on the issue,” Salah added. ***
But if he REALLY wanted to stop any building there, he should have declared it a sacred American-Indian burial ground!
Just fence it off and raise pigs there...Or turn it into a city dump...
You are in error. There are Catholics, Bahai, Mormons, Greek Orthodox, Druzr..
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