Jews Desecrate Muslim Graves

Zionist authorities desecrate Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem
Palestine-Muslim Cemetery

AL-KHALIL, Feb 8 (IRNA)-- Israeli officials have refused to comment on the latest desecration by a Zionist regime agency of hundreds of Muslim graves in occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem) where a "Museum of Tolerance" is slated to be built.

The Israeli press reported on Wednesday that dozens of skeletons had been uncovered and in some cases smashed at the construction site at the Mamanu Allah graveyard in West Jerusalem which for several centuries served as the main Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem.

Muslim leaders in the Zionist state have strongly condemned the "blasphemous desecration" of the Muslim cemetery.

"I really can't understand what is happening. Where in the world a state, that claims to be a civilized democracy, allows the building of a so-called 'museum of tolerance' right on top of a graveyard. Do Jews think non-Jews are animals? Without sanctity," said the leader of the Islamic movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah.

Salah told IRNA that Israel was being almost totally callous toward and disrespectful of Muslim sensitivities in this regard.

"Imagine, just imagine how Jews would react if these bones that are being smashed and tampered with belonged to Jews?"
Last month, the Al-Aqsa Society, which oversees Islamic Wakf property in Jerusalem, especially the Aqsa Mosque, petitioned the Israeli High Court of Justice to stop the construction of the planned museum, a $200- million project sponsored and financed by the Simon Wisenthal Center.

However, the court refused to order a halt of the excavation at the site.

The Simon Wisenthal Center, which seeks to locate the whereabouts and prosecute former Nazis, has rebuffed all efforts by Muslim leaders to build the museum elsewhere.

Moreover, authorities at the site have installed closed-circuit cameras to film possible attempts by Muslims or journalists to find out what is being done to the remains of their dead.