Jacob Amir

Recent Activity

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  Jacob signed the petition | 9 months ago

  Free Saudi Women Drivers Immediately!
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  Jacob signed the petition | 10 months ago

  Call for the Release of Ai Weiwei
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  Jacob commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Museum of Tolerance - or Provocation?

   
            In 1964,  the Sharia Court in Jaffa dealt with that cemetery and the President of the Muslim Court of Appeals ruled that the cemetery is Mundras ( "abandoned", which means that it has lost its sanctity and one is permitted to do on it what one does on any other land which was never a cemetery). More importantly,  back in 1929, the highest Muslim religious authority in Palestine, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el Husseini, initiated the building of the Palace Hotel on part of that cemetery because it was already considered a Mundras. There was also a plan to build a Muslim University on the site. The hotel was built but the University was not, because of lack of funds.
            It appears that you are not aware of the "Mundras" religious ruling, which allows for abandoned cemeteries to be used for commercial development and is found in many Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia.
            It appears that the objection to the Museum in Jerusalem has nothing to so with religion and everything to do with anti-Israeli politics.