Opponent Of Cordoba House Is Building A Museum On Top Of A Muslim Cemetery In
Jerusalem
Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center appeared on Fox News yesterday to argue against the Cordoba
House project in lower Manhattan. “It’s a great idea, it’s the wrong location,”
Hier said. “It’s very insensitive.”
HIER: For 3000 families, the 9/11 site is one of the — is
the site of one of the greatest atrocities ever committed in the United
States, and it’s a cemetery. And the opinion of the
families should be paramount as to what should go near that site. Now
having a fifteen-story mosque within 1600 feet of the site is at the very least
insensitive.
Watch it:
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
Interestingly, while Hier believes that Ground Zero should be treated
as a cemetery, Hier’s own organization is currently building a “Museum
of Tolerance” atop an actual cemetery — the Mamilla Cemetery, a Muslim
graveyard in Jerusalem “with thousands of grave sites
that go back some 1200 years.” The planned museum has caused a huge
international uproar, causing celebrity architect Frank Gehry to withdraw from
the project.
In February 2010, the Center for Constitutional Rights and other groups filed a
petition on behalf of the Palestinian descendants of those buried in the
Mamilla Cemetery. The petition claimed:
A significant portion of the cemetery is being destroyed
and hundreds of human remains are being desecrated so that SWC can build
a facility to be called the “Center for Human Dignity – Museum of
Tolerance” on this sacred Muslim site.
Great idea. Wrong location.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/06/marvin-hier-museum/
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