Community | February 20, 2011 | 3 comments

Protest Against Planned Museum of Tolerance to be Built over Palestinian Burial Grounds

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/10/jewish-museum-tolerance-muslim-cemetery

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"This tolerance museum to us is a museum of intolerance," said Dyala Husseini, who has ancestors from her family and her husband's family buried in the cemetery. "It is very inhumane, it is very humiliating and it ignores our existence as Palestinian families here in Jerusalem. Our families are here in Jerusalem and have been here for centuries," she said.

Jamal Nusseibeh said one of his ancestors, the former governor of Jerusalem Burhan al-Din al-Khazraji ibn Nusseibeh, was buried in the cemetery in 1432. "It is part of the rich fabric of Jerusalem which always has been a symbol of tolerance," he said. "The fact that anybody could wish to wipe out such a structural part of this fabric in order somehow to promote tolerance is very hard to understand."

Last month Rabbi Marvin Hier, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's founder, said the project was on a "fantastic site in the heart of Jerusalem" and would bring "to Jerusalem and the people of Israel, a project of crucial significance to its future".

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(Note the article calling it a "Muslim cemetery" and protestors are "complaining.")

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3 comments // Protest Against Planned Museum of Tolerance to be Built over Palestinian Burial Grounds

  • freecrack
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      freecrack  

    • eh 50-50
      israel are dicks cuz of the dome of the rock
      but the dome is a strategic thing they do to claim land rights
      maybe it is a cemetery or maybe it is the backyard of a palestinian family that holds the remains of two members.who knows

    • 1 year ago
  • ahappymintleaf
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      ahappymintleaf  
    • freecrack:

      It says what it is

      "Islamic groups and individual Palestinians complained that the site, in west Jerusalem, was the ancient cemetery of Ma'man Allah, also known as Mamilla, which housed thousands of graves dating back hundreds of years and where even today there are still many gravestones and tombs."

      How is this 50-50? How is building on a family's backyard more acceptable?

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • ahappymintleaf:

      it is 50-50 cuz every square inch of the holy land some one has a religious claim to.valid or not.i mean look at the dome of the rock.do you imagine that it was built there cuz islam literaly knows the exact spot mohamed ascended to heaven, or because of the political significance of that spot?
      a billion people right now will tell you that they know as a fact that the temple mount is where mohamed ascended to heaven and they honestly believe it too.but cmon.the reality is this is what religions do.both the palestinians and israelis have been playing this game since 67.settlers make some land holy by some standard and the palestinians do the same.wether it is wooden temples and mosks built just for the sake of laying claim to a parcel, or claiming the other guys developement must stop cuz it is an ancient burial ground.it could go either way.

      building on someones back yard is just the cold reality of civilized life.every place in israel has legions of dead people buried.ya cant shake a stick in isreal and not come across where some abrahamic faithfull was buried.if i bury my wife in the backyard, i cant very well expect that from that point till the end of time no one will ever build anything on top of her?cmon that is unreasonable no matter how ya look at it.

    • 1 year ago
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