Posted on 10/04/2010 8:18:34 AM PDT by IbJensen
(Sept. 30) -- Officials in the small town of Sidney, N.Y., want to stop a Muslim community center from burying bodies in a cemetery on its own land.
Town officials say the burial ground is illegal. "You can't just come bury somebody in your yard," Sidney Town Supervisor Bob McCarthy told AOL News in a phone interview.
The town, located about 100 miles southwest of Albany, has demanded that Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, a Sufi Muslim community center, shut down the cemetery and remove the two bodies already interred there. But Hans Hass, the leader of the center, which bought the land years ago, says the cemetery is legal and claims the town is acting out of anti-Muslim sentiment.
"I think it's out of bigotry," Hass told the New York Daily News. "They don't like us being here, even though we've been here since 2002."
Hass said the timing of the town's opposition to the cemetery seemed to coincide with the controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic community center near ground zero in New York City, something McCarthy denies. The issue came up "long before that," he told CNN. McCarthy said bigotry had no bearing on the town's actions.
"These burials were done illegally, without notifying local authorities or obtaining proper permits," McCarthy told the Daily Star in upstate New York last month. "We will be seeking to have these bodies disinterred and stop future burials."
... "These people not only have their rights, they want more rights than anybody else has."
New York state has no law regulating cemeteries on privately held land, so local laws apply. And the town of Sidney stipulates that any cemetery must be on a "single contiguous area of at least 15 acres," Sidney Town Clerk Lisa French told AOL News...
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They don't like you being there alive. Dead? Another matter. Ship the cadavers back to any muslim nation.
Do they realize that pigs might have walked on that land? It is in Upstate New York, where most of the farms are isn’t it?
Islam will be the death of western civilization if we allow it.
Islam will be the death of western civilization if we allow it.
My money is on them getting away with it. Unfortunately, “political correctness” reigns supreme in this country at this point in time and will allow these cretins to get away with just about any damned thing. I believe that in the end though, we, as a nation, will pull our heads out from where they are parked and common sense will, once again, reign. Unfortunately, that return to common sense may be a while in coming and a lot of damage will be done in the interim.
I wonder how many moslems would want to be buried there if someone spread a load of rancid lard around?
The courts will side with the muzzies. Creeping Sharia.
We are equal, but they are most equal of all.
It is not (we) it is the moron in chief and his minions.
Worth a double posting!
It may seem like a curious way to do it, but what better way to establish a permanent Muslim toehold in that area than to bury a couple of Muslims there?
I agree that the courts will probably let them get away with it. Then, even if the property has to be sold, they’ll have a permanent foothold there for their lawyers to work with.
Show up with a wood chipper, aim it into the cemetary, and put some pigs in it.
I’m all for more muzzies in cemetery’s. Seems like a good place to send them.
Oh yes you can, if you're muzzies.
There are public health concerns here too. If any of the homse use well water, for instance, a cemetary cannot be allowed within so many feet of the well(s).
Now, there’s a visual...
Shades of “Fargo”.
Maybe someone could put in a Dog cemetery next door
Oh that makes sense, nobody had a problem with them until they committed an illegal act and now, after eight years, it's bigotry.
Right.
Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto (1571) in which forces of the Holy League defeated the Ottoman navy. This story about the resistance of a small NY town is an appropriate one to commemorate that great victory.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/lepanto.htm
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