Buried at Sea According to Islamic Custom?

[OWC Jamie]

nit pick over traditions and traditional acceptances ?

We don't think proper procedures haven't been discussed with the Saudis and Islamic experts for 15 years ?


There are a number of traditions with acceptable variations.

For diplomatic reasons alone as many as could humanly possible be addressed were certainly addressed - and planned for ages ago.


Buried within 24 hours and in a manner to avoid grave desecration have certainly been adhered to.
The Saudis refusing the body should be acceptable to all but the most extreme clerics .

[cbelt3]

I"ll provide a perfectly American response.

Who the hell cares ? I kind of hope they tossed him into the drink sewed up in pigskin. And preferably from the back end of a C-17 at 8,000 feet over the Arabian Sea. With a minimal prayer "Dear God.. make sure this bastard burns in hell."

[Grace62]

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.

[Mac1337]

I repeat. You shoot someone in the head and kill everyone around him then take credit for "proper" burial? The people who you want to impress won't be. None of what was done was Islamic. Islamic burial means buried in the ground, wrapped in a white shroud facing Mecca. Getting tossed overboard with weights around your feet is not Islamic burial. Sound more like how mobs dispose of bodies.

[OWC Jamie]

You should have claimed the body.

You could have had a yard sale.

Muslims only.

[Janit]

Islamic peoples have done enough seafaring that there must be several suitable options for burial at sea.

[$tevie]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42859267/

It's really difficult to give a rat's patootie what happened to the body. There is no religious tradition anywhere that says a body is supposed to be burned to a crisp in jet fuel. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

[Mac1337]

You are so insensitive to minorities, the downtrodden, the disenfranchised. What has come over you ¢tevie?

[cbelt3]

Dakota wrote:
You are so insensitive to minorities, the downtrodden, the disenfranchised. What has come over you ¢tevie?

Dude, why are you so sensitive to Al Qaueda's sensibilities ? Are you some sort of secret jihadi set among us to try and sow dissension and foster a revolt inside the US, which would weaken us and make us easy to overthrow and impose Sharia ?

Is your middle name... *gasp* Hussein ? :devil:

[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.

OBL was not a Muslim leader, as the President said last night, and he profaned the message of Islam. His followers who saw him as a religious leader embraced a false prophet. This burial may offend some Muslims, but had the US followed the proper custom it would have sent a message of honor, and that would have offended most of the world.