Finding new ways to placate their new masters. “Muslim graves could displace 350,000 bodies,” by Ed Harris in the Evening Standard (thanks to Isabella the Crusader):
A third of a million bodies could be dug up from a historic east London cemetery to make way for a new Muslim burial site.
Tower Hamlets council is considering reopening its Cemetery Park in Mile End in response to a long-running campaign for a Muslim graveyard in the area.
The park, off Bow Common Lane, was deconsecrated as a Church of England cemetery by Parliament in 1966, after being deemed full with about 350,000 bodies buried there….
The Rev Alan Green, chairman of the Tower Hamlets Inter-Faith Forum and dean for the borough, has warned of the “emotional, practical and ecological issues of removing thousands of bodies”.