[MR] new vs. old

[Towey, Brian]

> They didn't.  At least not in Mexico.  They just built
> on top of them.  In Mexico City there is to this day
> the problem of what to do with the Great Cathedral,
> which is built on top of the Templo Mayor of
> Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Great Temple.  In order to
> restore the Templo Mayor, it would be necessary pretty
> much to destroy the Cathedral
> and viceversa. 

It probably bears mentioning that this sort of problem is not limited to
Christian sites. Did any of you see this news article last October?  

-Charles Fleming

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24760
TUESDAY OCTOBER 2, 2001 
WorldNet Daily

A small protrusion forming ominously in the 2000-year-old Southern Wall of
the Temple Mount and spreading cracks in the fabric of the Al Aqsa Mosque
are the result of an extensive Islamic construction project opposed but not
stopped by the Israeli government. 

<lots of interesting political intrigue snipped>

The damage to the Islamic sites comes on top of the destruction of unique
relics and artifacts from Jewish Temple, Byzantine, Crusader and medieval
times, that the Muslim builders smashed and dumped, in defiance of protests
from scholars around the world and warnings from engineers. The Palestinian
mufti of Jerusalem and Sheikh Salah simply echoed Arafat's assertion that
the Temple Mount, including the Western Wall, is a Muslim site and no Jewish
temples ever existed. 

Ergo - no relics. 

To make sure this was true, Salah's builders did what they could to
obliterate every trace of an historic Jewish presence above and below the
ground of Temple Mount, according to Israeli observers. 

But they forgot to take this into account: The Islamic structures were built
on the early foundations of that presence and were supported by them.
Therefore, by their acts of vandalism, the new Muslim builders have also
wrought irreparable damage to sites holy to Islam.