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Posted on 04/02/2004 3:29:06 PM PST by FreedomCalls
CAIRO, July 25 – The U.S. decision to allow TV journalists to film the bodies of what it says of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's two sons was harshly criticized by law experts, human rights advocates and media specialists Friday, July 25.
"The release of the bodies in public acts in contravention of the Second Geneva Convention, which provides protection to the war casualties," international law professor in Cairo university Abdulla Al-Ashaal told IslamOnline.net.
"The Convention stipulated that war deaths should not be mutilated," Ashaal said.
Expected Outrage
In the Arab world, moral prospective of releasing dead bodies in a battered state is almost a taboo given its contradiction with a wide religious belief that death should be treated with sanctity.
"Publishing photos of mutilated corpses is haram (Forbidden), under the Islamic Law or Sharia,” said Mohamed Emara, a prominent moderate Islamic scholar.
Emara said prophet Mohamed (PBUH) had repeatedly warned against distorting bodies, let alone "taking them on the air as the Americans did".
He cited examples of tolerance in which Prophet Mohamed stood in silence out of respect at a funeral of a man of no acquaintance, in spite of being told by his followers the man was Jewish who hurt Muslims a great deal in his life.
"Posing the brothers' bodies for cameras is condemned by all cultures and civilizations," he added.
A furious reaction is expected among ordinary people in Muslim countries over showing the photos of Ouday and Qusay regardless of their notoriety.
Televised images of the bodies of Saddam's sons shocked many Arabs, who said it was un-Islamic to exhibit corpses, however much the brothers were loathed, Reuters said.
The agency quoted one Saudi civilian as saying although Uday and Qusay are criminals, "displaying their corpses like this is disgusting and repulsive. America claims it is civilized but is behaving like a thug."
" America always spoils its own image by doing something like this. What is the advantage of showing these bodies? Didn't they think about the humanitarian aspect? About their mother and the rest of their family when they see these images?" asked another civilian in Riyadh .
'Proper' Funeral
Furthermore, however criminal they are, Ouday and Qusay should be given a proper Muslim funeral under the Islamic Law.
"The detested sons of Saddam have the right to be buried according to Islamic ritual, whatever crimes they may have committed in their lifetimes," Ayatollah Bashir Hussein al-Najafi told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
"It is a proof of the greatness of Islam and of its spirit of justice," Najafi added.
He said "any desecration of a tomb, even that of a criminal, is considered a violation of Islamic law."
Divided
"Publishing photos of mutilated corpses is haram (Forbidden) under the Islamic Law”, Emara
I'm LMAO at the hypocrisy at that statement.
"Posing the brothers' bodies for cameras is condemned by all cultures and civilizations," he added.
Ahh, but parading around with body pieces and stringing up the remains on a bridge is perfectly acceptable in Islam I guess.
Televised images of the bodies of Saddam's sons shocked many Arabs, who said it was un-Islamic to exhibit corpses, however much the brothers were loathed, Reuters said.
I haven't heard Arabs expressing much "shock" over the Fallujah event.
Furthermore, however criminal they are, Ouday and Qusay should be given a proper Muslim funeral under the Islamic Law.
Wooop! Wooop! Hypocrisy alert!
"It is a proof of the greatness of Islam and of its spirit of justice," Najafi added.
If that statement is true, then the events of Fallujah have proven the opposite.
He said "any desecration of a tomb, even that of a criminal, is considered a violation of Islamic law."
Then I would expect cooperation among the people of Fallujah to hunt down and turn in the ghouls who committed the atrocity.
"Publishing photos of mutilated corpses is haram (Forbidden) under the Islamic Law”, Emara
Paging Al-Jazeera, paging Al-Jazeera....., hello Al Jazeera, ....is anyone home??
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They're just like everybody else and the mission of the Prophet failed.
Bring on the missionaries~!
Just like the way they hanged and beheaded Iraqis, then tossed them into mass graves. Eeeeesh.
In islam it is "haram" (wrong) to desecrate a corpse, however, it is acceptable to do unto an enemy the same as he has done unto you. So the muslims are now trying to equate the display of the Hussein Brothers destroyed bodies with the public desecration of Americans.
Just a cheap justification in an attempt to save whatever face these beasts have left.
As I recall, distortion was necessary in order to compel the brothers Hussein to cease & desist firing their weapons at our soldiers.
At least we fixed 'em up afterwards - I remember them looking quite peaceful for the photo shoot... looked like they were sleeping.
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