When it's okay to dig up a cemetery and when it's not

Here in Jerusalem, for more than two years, the construction of the Museum of Tolerance, being built by Los Angeles' Simon Wiesenthal Center, has been tied up in the courts. The reason is that the Museum is being constructed on the site of a parking garage that was built in the 1960's on a corner of what was a Muslim cemetery. The cemetery was declared mundras (abandoned) by the Muslim Shari'a Court of Appeals in 1964. Burials had not taken place there in nearly forty years and none other than Haj Amin al-Husseini built a hotel on part of the cemetery ground in 1929. In January 2006, the Islamic Movement's Northern Front, a 'militant' organization headed by Sheikh Raed Sallah, filed an appeal with the High Court of Justice in the name of the Wakf, construction was suspended and the Wiesenthal Center has done nothing but incur costs ever since.
I discussed the cemetery's history at length here.
In light of the Muslim insistence that graves cannot be removed from a cemetery in which no one has been buried since the 1920's, it is ironic to see Muslims in London demanding that another cemetery, which has been in use much more recently (according to the Daily Mail it was declared full and closed in 1966), with 350,000 graves be 'removed.' But then, there's one standard for the Muslims and another for the Dhimmis.
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