05-02-2011, 03:37 PM
Chakravartin wrote:
I wonder how far they went in observing the rituals for the deceased. Do you think they bathed and shrouded him?
I believe that Sharia makes it obligatory for the family of the deceased to take his debts upon themselves, even if it would leave them destitute to repay those debts. Does this imply that the Bin Laden family owes restitution to the families of his victims?
Saudi Arabia -- where a lot of the Bin Ladens live -- puts people to death for failing to follow Sharia law. Just sayin'.
His biological relatives in SA (there are around 600 of them, the guy had something like 55 siblings) publicly disowned him in 1994 and he was stripped of Saudi citizenship.
He's no longer one of them, so I don't see how any of that would apply.
The fact that one of the world's richest families, and one so interconnected with the top echelons of US and world power, also produced the world's leading terrorist has got to be one of the more interesting late 20th century stories.