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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 01:36 AM Jun 2017

More than 130 British imams refuse to bury London attackers

Source: CNN





By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor

Updated 3:29 PM ET, Mon June 5, 2017

Story highlights

"These vile murderers seek to divide our society and (instill) fear," imams say
Police killed three attackers after terror rampage in London

(CNN)More than 130 imams from Britain are refusing to offer Islamic burials to the three men who launched attacks Saturday night in London, killing seven and wounding dozens more.

"We will not perform the traditional Islamic funeral prayer for the perpetrators and we also urge fellow imams and religious authorities to withdraw such a privilege," the Muslim leaders said Monday in a statement posted on social media.
The imams described their actions as "unprecedented," though mosques in Manchester, England, and in the United States have refused to bury Muslims involved in terror attacks in recent years. .............

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/05/europe/imams-london-burial/index.html?sr=twcnni060617imams-london-burial0401AMStoryVideo&linkId=38390284

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More than 130 British imams refuse to bury London attackers (Original Post) riversedge Jun 2017 OP
Strong words! burrowowl Jun 2017 #1
Perhaps a landfill would be appropriate. democratisphere Jun 2017 #2
Wrapped in a certain way, facing the wrong way.... 7962 Jun 2017 #5
... with their corpses swaddled in bacon! Raster Jun 2017 #8
Well, I WAS gonna go there...... 7962 Jun 2017 #15
Bless them, and I mean that Hekate Jun 2017 #3
I have no respect for the freaks. C Moon Jun 2017 #4
Common grave, no religious service. Do they still get all those virgins? TheBlackAdder Jun 2017 #6
They do get the virgins actually. Lucky Luciano Jun 2017 #7
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! 7962 Jun 2017 #16
Good for them Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2017 #9
This needs to be the response to every attack B2G Jun 2017 #10
bury them on an undisclosed hog farm somewhere rollin74 Jun 2017 #11
This needs to be standard practice AwakeAtLast Jun 2017 #12
Meh. Igel Jun 2017 #17
Throw them in the trash dalton99a Jun 2017 #13
If only Muslims would speak out and act against terrorists. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2017 #14
give their names and bodies to the craziest latter day saints to convert to their faith Demonaut Jun 2017 #18
If there is nothing medically wrong with the bodies christx30 Jun 2017 #19
Hearing protection on! orangecrush Jun 2017 #20

TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts)
6. Common grave, no religious service. Do they still get all those virgins?
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 07:06 AM
Jun 2017

.

This was started as a semi-flippant question, but when applying this to the 9-11 hijackers, whose bodies were incinerated, it does notreally matter that they don't have services performed. Their act was already performed, and they gave their lives for their god. The religious services are really an afterthought, since assention would occur immediately upon death, not under the blessings of an iman.

I took a religion course on this type of mental phenomenon, as is pertains to Christians, and the dynamics are nearly identical. What can a person or government offer someone, as a worldly reward, when they are offered an afterlife next to god? There are none.

That is why churches push the afterlife so much, because the time on earth is so short, and everyone wants to be in heaven sitting by the right side of God, having all the comforts available to them. It's better than nothing or eternity in hell.

This is why it is tough to suppress this idea, because it is just that, and cannot be killed. You cannot kill an idea.

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B2G

(9,766 posts)
10. This needs to be the response to every attack
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 01:41 PM
Jun 2017

It won't stop them all, but maybe it will make the more devout think twice. Any little bit helps.

Igel

(35,320 posts)
17. Meh.
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 07:59 PM
Jun 2017

Most wouldn't care. Even those who are Catholic with the idea of consecrated ground don't much care about such niceties.

Most domestic mass-killers tend to have their own idiosyncratic views and few even see the need to say they're not whatever. They don't have an ISIS or a network of, say, Swedenborgians proudly claiming that the killers are martyrs for whatever their deity is (if they even have one).

This is a start. But there's still a sizeable peer group supporting these pieces of crap when they say they want to kill for Allah. (Somebody'll probably try to hide the post because I dare to actually refer to the killers' self-expressed motivation.)

christx30

(6,241 posts)
19. If there is nothing medically wrong with the bodies
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 09:09 PM
Jun 2017

I'd say to donate them to medical science. They should do something to actually help people in death, since they were so useless in life.

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