Museum of Forced Tolerance

In October, the Israeli Supreme Court decided to allow building the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. In doing so, it overrun legal protests from Palestinian families, attempting to halt the construction because a major ancient Muslim cemetery was found on the site of the building.

Durragham Saif, the lawyer who brought the Islamic Court petition on behalf of three Palestinian families, Al Dijani, Nusseibeh and Bader Elzain, all of whom have members buried at the cemetery, said: "It's unbelievable, it's immoral. You cannot build a museum of tolerance on the graves of other people. Imagine this kind of thing in the [United] States or England. And this is the Middle East where events are sensitive. If this goes ahead in this way it is going to cause the opposite thing to tolerance."(paragraph taken from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-plans-to-build-museum-of-tolerance-on-muslim-graves-466028.html)

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