re: #133 Lidane

Interesting bit of irony— one of the opponents of Cordoba House is currently building a museum atop a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem.

But of course, it’s only the Cordoba House project that’s insensitive due to its location.

The building the Simon Wiesenthal center wants to build in Israel allegedly on top of a Muslim cemetery really isn’t on a cemetery. The bodies in the cemetery that existed there were already moved in 1945 when a business center was constructed on the site. All sanctioned by the Supreme Moslem Council at the time.

The Museum of Tolerance building, what the Wiesenthal center is now slated to construct, will be built on what currently is a parking lot. I would also mention the issue has been in the courts for years so everyone got a fair hearing, as they did for the center in NY.

The 1945 article also describes plans by the council to transfer remains buried in the cemetery to a separate, “walled reserve” and cites rulings from prominent Muslim clerics at the time allowing for the building plans to progress.

The Think Progress article, btw, links to some pretty heavy duty anti-Semitic sites (one has commentary from Norm Finkelstein).