Upstate NY Town Wants Local Muslims to Dig Up Their Cemetery

[Green_Lantern]

Source: Huffington Post

A town in upstate New York is trying to force a local Muslim religious community to dig up a small cemetery on its property and never bury anyone there again because it says it's illegal.

"What we would not want is an unauthorized cemetery," says Bob McCarthy, town supervisor of the Delaware County town of Sidney, population 5,993. "We're taking care of a bunch of cemeteries, and they just came in and buried the bodies, and didn't go through...there's no funding there, it's not a standard kind of deal, and it's going to become a liability to the town."

So what steps have the Muslims skipped? "I don't know what the exact law is," he says.

Which is the problem; because whether or not the town government likes it, there are no laws in Sidney -- or New York state, for that matter -- covering cemeteries on private land -- religious cemeteries included. Plus, the town approved the cemetery in 2005.

In any event, the cemetery, in the tiny hamlet of Sidney Center, was never a secret -- and couldn't have been: When the first body arrived in November, 2009, it had a 3-car escort from the Passaic, New Jersey Police Department, which necessarily told local authorities it was arriving.

And there's certainly nothing illegal about it as far as the State Troopers are concerned. "We looked into the cemetery and it was determined what they were doing is lawful," says Captain James Barnes of the New York State Police, Troop "C," based in Sidney.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-reinbach/tiny-upstate-new-york-tow_b_739832.html

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This town learned nothing from Poltergeist<\i>

[Turborama]

1. WTF?

I mean. What. The. Fuck?

"Islamophobia is something we're definitely aware of," says James Mulvany, Deputy Commissioner of the New York Division of Human Rights.

No! You don't say.

[Hekate]

2. Clearly the Muslim cemetery of Sidney Center is too close to Ground Zero...

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[jobycom]

3. Maybe moving the whole town is in order.

Move it back to the Middle Ages from which it escaped.

[Posteritatis]

4. Alternately, burial. (nt)

[skoalyman]

5. just in time for Halloween

Hey kids lets go dig up grandpa:puke: good lord I hope the spirits of the dead visit everyone of the people involved, bunch races creeps. :mad:

[L.Torsalo]

8. Bravo!!!

Best response, by far. Thanks for the laugh and the chagrined look on my face...cheers!

[Chipper Chat]

6. By that rationale what's to stop Native Americans

from asking European squatters (us) to dig up all our "unauthorized" cemeteries in the US?

[Green_Lantern]

9. well we did carve a huge monument and put it right in the Lakota's

Backyard. That seems pretty arrogant.

[Mikeystyle]

7. Bin Laden thanks Christian extremists for their support

In a videotaped message issued to mark the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden praised Christian extremists for inflaming the Islamic world with their anti-Muslim actions and rhetoric.

He spoke particularly of plans to build an Islamic-based cultural center in New York City and of a Florida preacher threatening to burn the Koran.

The tape, apparently recorded on Saturday, was aired Monday on the Arabic-language network Al Jazeera and was confirmed as authentic by the FBI.

“Lately, with your President Obama reaching out to the Muslim world and troops leaving Iraq it was becoming more difficult to recruit and convince our Muslim brothers and sisters that America is out to destroy Islam, but then you guys lose your marbles and all I have to do is roll the videotape. I don’t even have to make things up or give a fiery speech,” bin Laden said on the videotape. “Every time Americans do something stupid like the Abu Ghraib scandal, the reaction against a New York Islamic center or this man in Florida threatening to burn the Koran it makes my job so much easier. We’re going to exceed our recruitment goals for the month thanks to you guys. ” (continued…)

http://www.thechicagodope.com/2010/09/13/bin-laden-thanks-christian-extremists-for-their-support/