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A top Muslim religious cleric on Monday condemned the U.S. decision to bury Osama Bin-Laden at sea. The head of Cairo's prestigious al-Azhar University, one of the top Sunni clerics in the Islamic world, said that the burial was “un-Islamic” and an insult to his religion. The preferred method of Muslim burial is in the ground, he added.
we should have wrapped him in bacon..
Originally posted by Now_Then
I think a main (official) consideration with the sea burial was so that there was not one specific spot where Al Quada followers could gather and form some sort of memorial, and martyr Bin Laden any more than necessary, a specific ground funeral would have the possibility to become a focal point and a flash point.
Originally posted by ThinkingCap
But if he was buried in the ground, then his DNA could be found later on, and proof would then surface that it was never Osama's body being "cast to sea" in the first place.
Originally posted by notsofunnyguy
A top Muslim religious cleric on Monday condemned the U.S. decision to bury Osama Bin-Laden at sea. The head of Cairo's prestigious al-Azhar University, one of the top Sunni clerics in the Islamic world, said that the burial was “un-Islamic” and an insult to his religion.
Originally posted by darrman
reply to post by notsofunnyguy
we should have wrapped him in bacon..