More Islamic supremacist indifference to the cherished sites of the "most vile of created beings" (Qur'an 98:6). "Garden Tomb Threatened by Muslim Construction," by Chris Mitchell for CBN News, September 4 (thanks to Miss Kelly):
JERUSALEM - More than a quarter of a million Christians visit Jerusalem's Garden Tomb every year. The holy site is believed by many to be the place where Jesus rose from the dead.But now, the sacred ground is in danger of being damaged by a Muslim construction project. Garden Tomb Director Richard Meryon showed CBN News the 15-foot wall being built above the tomb.
"In the last few weeks the cemetery above has built this wooden construction into which they are now ready to pour hundreds of tons of concrete on top of our wall," he explained.
Jerusalem's Islamic waqf is building the wall to enlarge a Muslim cemetery. However, Meryon fears the construction could bring a catastrophe.
"Just beneath (the wall) we have three or four areas where Christians are worshipping every day. So we have the potential here in heavy rain or in snow, or even in one of those earth tremors that Jerusalem is famous for -- you only need one of those events to happen and this new wall could collapse," he said. "It could kill 200 visitors, pilgrims, and tourists in the garden worshipping."
The new wall also violates three local building codes and does not have a city permit. The structure is supposed to be built three feet away from any existing structure and permission is required.
"They have never sought my permission," Meryon said. "We have been in active discussion and I am now negotiating with them. I cannot allow them to build this wall until they prove to me beyond all reasonable doubt that this wall is going to be safe."...
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During Jordanian Arab occupation of the Old City, all 37-- or was it 38? -- of the synagogues were dynamited or otherwise destroyed. And Jewish tombstone, many centuries old, were ripped up from the Mount of Olives cemetery and used to line the floors of Jordanian Army latrines. But then the Arabs felt they still needed the West; the OPEC trillions had not yet started to flood in, and the Muslim millions had not settled deep within the countries of the West, behind what Muslims are taught to regard as enemy lines. So they still had to worry about Christian sensibilites, not least because the Arab Legion was trained, equipped, and led, by the British. It was bad enough that the British archaeologist Katherine Kenyon was unceremoniously booted out of Jordan because she kept finding too many Christian churches in her searches, and that alarmed and offended Muslims. But had Christian sites been damaged in Jerusalem, Great Britain might, in those days, have been offended, and even Glubb Pasha and Alec Kirkbride might have not been quite so infatuated with the local Arabs, including that "plucky little king," as he formulaically later came to be known by all those, such as the unmissed New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, who kept seeing him, King Hussein, as a veritable Prince of Peace, along with that other wrongly-idealized figure, Saint Sadat.
Now, with those OPEC trillions, and those Muslim millions in Western Europe (becoming tens of millions if Europeans do not reverse course, and take appropriate defensive measures, and soon), the Muslim Arabs are no longer worried about the sensibilities of what they regard as the Christian West. They have seen how easy it is to get their way, to threaten, to attack, to bully, to bluff, and how readily so many are to punish those who, like Geert Wilders or Thilo Sarrazin, dare to tell certain home truths about Islam and Muslims and the impossibility of their truly integrating into any Infidel nation-state.
So they are ready to proceed. And what will the Israeli government do about this? And Western governments, presumably led by cultivated people who care about the past, and the monuments and sacred places?
The Americans could have swooped in, and protected the Bamiyan Buddhas. They watched, in slow motion, over many weeks, as the Taliban threatened, as the Talibran prepared, as the Taliban received Pakistani and Saudi engineering assistance for a work of cruel destruction. And the Americans, who could have won points with Buddhists in China, Japan, South Korea, for protecting Buddhist sites from Muslim aggression, did nothing. Why? Because apparently they were more concerned with "offending" Muslims. Or perhaps it was just the usual blend of what I have frequently called the Esdrujula Explanation: Timidity, Rigidity, Stupidity, Cupidity (in this case, fear that offending the rich Arabs might lead to a little less "recycling of oil money" to particular members of the Saudi lobby that in Washington has for so many decades been so powerful).
So what will be done? Will the Obama administration utter a syllable of protest? Will European countries? How about the Pope? The World Council of Churches? The Archbishop of Canterbury? And what about the government of Israel itself?
Anyone? No one?
Anything? Nothing?