Extremist Jews vandalise Muslim cemetery

[Devil Soul]

Extremist Jews vandalise Muslim cemetery
Last Updated On 14 February,2013 About 1 hour ago

ERUSALEM (AFP) - Suspected Jewish extremists scrawled anti-Arab graffiti on the headstones in an ancient Muslim cemetery in west Jerusalem, police and witnesses told AFP on Thursday.

"The words price tag and Stars of David were scrawled on around a dozen tombs in the Muslim cemetery in Mamilla in central Jerusalem," a police spokeswoman told AFP, saying an inquiry had been opened.

An AFP correspondent at the scene said the vandals had also written "Mohammed is dead" and "Maale Rehavam" on the tombs some of which date back to the 12th century.

Price tag is a euphemism for hate crimes carried out by Israeli extremists which generally target Palestinians or Arabs and their property.

Such incident often take place in retaliation for Israeli government moves to dismantle unauthorised settler outposts, with Thursday s vandalism apparently linked to the removal of six caravans from the Maale Rehavam outpost in the southern West Bank a day earlier.

The move sparked angry protests by settlers and their supporters in and around Jerusalem.

There have been several attacks on Mamilla graveyard, known in Arabic as Ma man Allah cemetery, which dates from the 12th century and is the resting place of several Sufi saints.

Descendants of those interred in the west Jerusalem cemetery say it also houses the remains of soldiers and officials of legendary Muslim ruler Saladin.

 

[Albatross]

The surprising thing is all the humanitarians in the world are silent about this @Solomon2 , @jewverine . Had this been the otherway round and some muslims would have done it to a jewish or christian graveyard we can imagine what the havoc would have been created in the media world wide labeling muslims Islamists and terrorists and what not. Even our illiterate fella's from east who have nothing to interfere in these religious issues would have jumped in to condemn muslims out of their shear hatred for Islam.

 

[Solomon2]

The surprising thing is all the humanitarians in the world are silent about this @Solomon2 , @jewverine . Had this been the otherway round and some muslims would have done it to a jewish or christian graveyard we can imagine what the havoc would have been created -

I wonder if the point of the "price tag" movement is to highlight these "otherway round" issues. For last year in East Jerusalem fake Muslim graves were popping up overnight in an attempt to claim state land as "Muslim" territory. Is the point of the vandalism to say that such acts now carry a "price"? For the world media did indeed ignore - or at least Albatross doesn't remember - the land-grab attempt last year and the fact that not five muslims outside Israel can claim they stood up for the Jews and against the attempted thefts.

 

[Spring Onion]

Extremist Jews vandalise Muslim cemetery
Last Updated On 14 February,2013 About 1 hour ago

ERUSALEM (AFP) - Suspected Jewish extremists scrawled anti-Arab graffiti on the headstones in an ancient Muslim cemetery in west Jerusalem, police and witnesses told AFP on Thursday.

"The words price tag and Stars of David were scrawled on around a dozen tombs in the Muslim cemetery in Mamilla in central Jerusalem," a police spokeswoman told AFP, saying an inquiry had been opened.

An AFP correspondent at the scene said the vandals had also written "Mohammed is dead" and "Maale Rehavam" on the tombs some of which date back to the 12th century.

Price tag is a euphemism for hate crimes carried out by Israeli extremists which generally target Palestinians or Arabs and their property.

Such incident often take place in retaliation for Israeli government moves to dismantle unauthorised settler outposts, with Thursday s vandalism apparently linked to the removal of six caravans from the Maale Rehavam outpost in the southern West Bank a day earlier.

The move sparked angry protests by settlers and their supporters in and around Jerusalem.

There have been several attacks on Mamilla graveyard, known in Arabic as Ma man Allah cemetery, which dates from the 12th century and is the resting place of several Sufi saints.

Descendants of those interred in the west Jerusalem cemetery say it also houses the remains of soldiers and officials of legendary Muslim ruler Saladin.

Jewish Illegal settler will resort to such cheap acts