How Tolerant are they?

I received the following from Gershon Baskin of IPCRI

STOP THE BUILDING OF THE TOLERANCE MUSEUM ON A MUSLIM CEMETARY (sic)

Sunday, February 12, 2006

The Wiesenthal Center is constructing a " Museum of Tolerance " on top of a very important Jerusalem Muslim Cemetery . The cemetery is located in Zeitun al-Malk [Mamila of today], and has graves from Jerusalem's most important Palestinian families - Husseini, Nusseibeh, Muaked, Dajani, Kuteini, Namari, Abu-Saud – dating back at least 200 years. The Wiesenthal center claims to have taken all of the legal steps necessary to ensure that the museum can be legally built. But the issue is not a legal one. It is an issue of tolerance, sensibilities, morality, and mutual respect.

Imagine the outrage if the Palestinians were building a Museum of Tolerance (or anything else) on what was once a Jewish Cemetery. Would it matter to anyone if the cemetery was not active and in use since 1948 or that it was being done "legally"?

So, I wrote him the following:-

Just as a matter of interest, if we are to protest the building of a Museum on part of a Muslim cemetery, what are we to do about the building of a Mosque on part of the Temple Mount compound?