Posted on 05/02/2011 9:43:43 AM PDT by KansasGirl
DEVELOPING: Usama bin Laden was given a religious funeral prior to his burial at sea, senior military officials told Fox News.
Religious rites were conducted on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier at about 1:10 a.m. Monday in the Persian Gulf.
In accordance with Islamic practice, bin Laden was washed and wrapped in a white sheet before buried at sea at 2 p.m. local time, senior U.S. military and intelligence officials said.
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“bin Laden was washed and wrapped in a white sheet before buried at sea at 2 p.m. local time, senior U.S. military and intelligence officials said.”
Ahhh!!! The Obama touch!!! Isn’t that respectful....in line with Sharia Law.......horse spit!!!!
I’d wash him too, in pig urine.
Screw this. Anyone willing to enlist in fishin’ trip?! Meet me at Bass Pro in ten minutes, bring your rod, reel, and a 1/2 pound of bacon to shove down BinLadin’s throat.
OK, I’ll let it go. I just believe they should have done something different with the debris.
Oh, it exceeds the burial time of Islam? Screw Islam. I think a full examination of the body should have been done. Who says this wasn’t a relative of OBL and who says they had his body in the first place? He has dozens of family over there and it could be any one of them. I think it’s all fair in love and war to poke your enemy in the eye and stomp on their feet and cut their throats when they are the ones who kill innocents in their jihad against our nation. Maybe I am the eye for an eye type and am not willing to kiss their asses like some of you that come here from MoveOn.org. Maybe you should go post where your liberal brothers and sisters would feel the same way you do.
When I am out in San Fran in October I’m going to piss in the ocean and hope that it floats around to OBL. After eating a pork chop of course.
This was a smart move on the military and administration to “claim” that we gave a respectful burial at sea. We don’t need an uprising of muslims claiming we broke their religious law regardless of who we buried. That would just be more fuel for the fire.
That being said, if you think we didn’t shove a ham sandwich in his mouth and kick him overboard, I believe you’d be wrong!
Just wondering how respectful the bodies were treated of the many victims trapped in the World Trade Center
Maybe we should have drug him through the streets, hung him on a bridge ans set fire to him and watched him burn. Oh, that’s been done already - to American contractors by murderous islamists. How soon we forget!
I’m OK with feeding his corpse to the sharks.
I’m OK with feeding his corpse to the sharks.
Obama showing respect for the worst terrorist. This is purely insane. This is validating that it’s OK for Muslims to attack the US, IN THE NAME OF ISLAM.
“Ashes to ashes,
And dust to dust, son.
Where you’re headed,
You’re facing
Eternal Combustion.”
I don’t think any of our founders would have done that (i.e. Washington, Adams, Madison, etc). They would have shot him at dawn and not looked back. No need for theatrics.
As I suspected, the AP reporter got a the details wrong. The body wasn't prepared at 0100, but rather probably closer to 1300, with the burial at sea happening roughly an hour later, 1400 (local Persian Gulf time).
“...he just can’t man up and do something right.”
Ain’t ever going to happen. Neither one.
“What idiot came up with this burial at sea drama?..”
You need to ask...? I give you ONE guess. Who else, but Obama. Nobody else, I don’t care how liberal they are would show respect for Bin Laden this way, because this is what that was.
Islamic scholars criticize bin Laden’s sea burial
AP
By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press – 5 mins ago
CAIRO – 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.
Sea burials can be allowed, they said, but only in special cases where the death occurred aboard a ship.
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.
A radical cleric in Lebanon, Omar Bakri Mohammed, said, “The Americans want to humiliate Muslims through this burial, and I don’t think this is in the interest of the U.S. administration.”
A U.S. official said the burial decision was made after concluding that it would have been difficult to find a country willing to accept the remains. There was also speculation about worry that a grave site could have become a rallying point for militants.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security matters.
President Barack Obama said the remains had been handled in accordance with Islamic custom, which requires speedy burial, and the Pentagon later said the body was placed into the waters of the northern Arabian Sea after adhering to traditional Islamic procedures — including washing the corpse — aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.
But the Lebanese cleric Mohammed called it a “strategic mistake” that was bound to stoke rage.
In Washington, CIA director Leon Panetta warned that “terrorists almost certainly will attempt to avenge” the killing of the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks.
“Bin Laden is dead,” Panetta wrote in a memo to CIA staff. “Al-Qaida is not.”
According to Islamic teachings, the highest honor to be bestowed on the dead is giving the deceased a swift burial, preferably before sunset. Those who die while traveling at sea can have their bodies committed to the bottom of the ocean if they are far off the coast, according to Islamic tradition.
“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.”
But Mohammed Qudah, a professor of Islamic law at the University of Jordan, said burying the Saudi-born bin Laden at sea was not forbidden if there was nobody to receive the body and provide a Muslim burial.
“The land and the sea belong to God, who is able to protect and raise the dead at the end of times for Judgment Day,” he said. “It’s neither true nor correct to claim that there was nobody in the Muslim world ready to receive bin Laden’s body.”
Clerics in Iraq, where an offshoot of al-Qaida is blamed for the death of thousands of people since 2003, also criticized the U.S. action. One said it only benefited fish.
“If a man dies on a ship that is a long distance from land, then the dead man should be buried at the sea,” said Shiite cleric Ibrahim al-Jabari. “But if he dies on land, then he should be buried in the ground, not to be thrown into the sea. Otherwise, this would be only inviting fish to a banquet.”
The Islamic tradition of a quick burial was the subject of intense debate in Iraq in 2003 when U.S. forces embalmed the bodies of Saddam Hussein’s two sons after they were killed in a firefight. Their bodies were later shown to media.
“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.”
Prominent Egyptian Islamic analyst and lawyer Montasser el-Zayat said bin Laden’s sea burial was designed to prevent his grave from becoming a shrine. But an option was an unmarked grave.
“They don’t want to see him become a symbol, but he is already a symbol in people’s hearts.”
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Associated Press writers Barbara Surk in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Jamal Halaby and Sameer N. Yacoub in Amman, Jordan, and Zeina Karam in Beirut contributed to this report.
Bin Laden was, in the context of the Koran and Hadith, a “Good” Muslim. This does not equate to being Good.
Hitler was, in the context of the Bible and Christian teaching, completely evil.
“Ashes to ashes,
And dust to dust, son.
Where you’re headed,
You’re facing
Eternal Combustion.”
“I now consign you to the deep,
As lunch for the hagfish, if the
Sharks don’t get you first.”
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