RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. (RNS) — When Abdul Wahab talks about the proposed Crescent Gardens Cemetery, a dedicated Muslim burial site, he often returns to a simple reality.
“People are going to leave this world anyway,” he said. “We don’t have a choice. We need the graves.”
Wahab is a board member of the Muslim Mortuary & Cemetery Committee, the nonprofit that has for years tried to move the cemetery plan forward against some local opposition primarily concerned with groundwater contamination…