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Article: Wiesenthal Center considers moving Muslim graves from museum site
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- March 6, 2006
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SARAH TOTH, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-06-2006
Dateline: JERUSALEM
The Simon Wiesenthal Center may relocate Muslim graves discovered on the Jerusalem site of its planned Museum of Tolerance in hopes of soothing Muslim anger, a spokesman for the center said Monday.
Muslims, including the city's senior Islamic cleric, Mufti Ikrema Sabri, have protested the multimillion dollar museum project since human remains were found under the building site, an old Muslim cemetery.
In February, two Arab human rights groups filed a suit in Israel's Supreme Court to stop construction. The court recently ruled the Simon Wiesenthal Center must halt the project and enter into mediation.
Moving the ...