[vnathan]

Despite the U.S. justifying destroying all evidence of Osama's supposed dead body by burying it at sea in "accordance with Islam," Islamic scholars are saying it runs completely contrary to Islamic law.

AP reports:

CAIRO (AP) -- Muslim clerics said Monday that Osama bin Laden's burial at sea was a violation of Islamic tradition that may further provoke militant calls for revenge attacks against American targets.

Although there appears to be some room for debate over the burial -- as with many issues within the faith -- a wide range of senior Islamic scholars interpreted it as a humiliating disregard for the standard Muslim practice of placing the body in a grave with the head pointed toward the holy city of Mecca. [...]

Bin Laden's burial at sea "runs contrary to the principles of Islamic laws, religious values and humanitarian customs," said Sheik Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand Imam of Cairo's al-Azhar mosque, Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning. [...]

"They can say they buried him at sea, but they cannot say they did it according to Islam," Mohammed al-Qubaisi, Dubai's grand mufti, said about bin Laden's burial. "If the family does not want him, it's really simple in Islam: You dig up a grave anywhere, even on a remote island, you say the prayers and that's it."

"Sea burials are permissible for Muslims in extraordinary circumstances," he added. "This is not one of them." [...]

"What was done by the Americans is forbidden by Islam and might provoke some Muslims," said another Islamic scholar from Iraq, Abdul-Sattar al-Janabi, who preaches at Baghdad's famous Abu Hanifa mosque. "It is not acceptable and it is almost a crime to throw the body of a Muslim man into the sea. The body of bin Laden should have been handed over to his family to look for a country or land to bury him."

Compare that to what a "senior White House official" told Politico to justify the dumping:

Asked how bin Laden's body will be treated, a senior administration official told reporters on a conference call that "we are ensuring that is handled in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition."

The official, who refused to be identified, said the matter is "something that we take very seriously, and so, therefore, this is being handled in an appropriate manner."

How convenient they disposed of his dead body, so much for producing any overwhelmingly compelling evidence it's actually Bin Laden.

[Pink.]

Islamic traditions is to bury a body at sea only if the person died while at sea and theres no wa to get to a land-based burial place on time....

we SHOULD expect lots of holes in this story.

those cut by the politicians and those cut by the media.

[vnathan]

Reasons were: they didn't want his burial place to become a 'shrine'. Wtf? So bury him in the mountains.

And...no country would accept his body. Lies. No denial was ever given by any government except Saudi Arabia.

[Pink.]

Originally Posted by vnathan ↗

Reasons were: they didn't want his burial place to become a 'shrine'. Wtf? So bury him in the mountains.

And...no country would accept his body. Lies. No denial was ever given by any government except Saudi Arabia.

"It would be hard to find a country to take his body and have him buried in compliance with the time constraints set forth by Islam" or SOMETHING like that...

I bet Lebanon would have....Probably gaza(except for the blockade)....syria or Iran???...donmt know, but it seems to me that there were possibilities.

Im not closed minded, and I was not fond of bin Laden by a long shot....but if something is going to be reported by the media/government///whoever.....DONT PISSO ON MY SHOES AND TELL ME ITS RAINING.....just be straight about it.

[vnathan]

Hardly known to the public is that Osama is one of Gaddafi's biggest enemies. Even Saddam's. This can be proved by the fact that Gaddafi sent a Libyan assassination squad to Sudan to kill Osama at the behest of Saudi authorities. Something that the Saudis later denied.

[Eaton]

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[PsychodelicTurtle]

WHO GIVES A SHIT WHERE THE DOUCHE WAS BURIED!!!!!!!!!!!
His life brought nothing but darkness to this world. Let the fish feast on his miserable carcas! Since his life caused so much misery to so many, let his death bring pleasure and life to the fish of the sea. At least, he's of some use, now.

[Dannyboyhoward]

its illegal to be buried on a mountain

[RedneckR0nin]

Originally Posted by Pink. ↗

Islamic traditions is to bury a body at sea only if the person died while at sea and theres no wa to get to a land-based burial place on time....

we SHOULD expect lots of holes in this story.

those cut by the politicians and those cut by the media.

Continue with the research..
Only if died at see or way to get a land burial...OR if their is significant thought the body will not be left alone, be exhumed or dug back up.
I think that the final part of that statement plays to be true in this case!

[PornFlakesAkaGee]

His body aint at sea, thats just plane bullshit. I wanna know where it really is though..