05-02-2011, 05:03 PM
billb wrote:
[quote=Grace62]
I think there's a message to this burial at sea. Nothing about this operation was by accident. Islamic tradition says you can be buried at sea only if you died at sea and are too far from land to make it back in 24 hrs. They could have stuck him in an unmarked grave on some nameless island, and called it good. There was plenty of time to plan for that.
How do you keep the grave from being desecrated ? Bury him on Cuba where the spot can be watched 24/7 ?
This wasn't a holy man to anyone but the most extreme of Islamic factions. I can't imagine any government wanting his body contaminating their soil. Not even Yemen.
Won't surprise me to find out this is what his family wanted.
Did you read my entire post? I don't advocate land burial for this guy. I think what they did was exactly right.