FROM TOM GROSS: AL-AZHAR: “BURIAL AT SEA IS A SIN”….SEE NOTE
http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001192.html
THEY SHOULD HAVE CHECKED THIS OUT BEFORE FEEDING HIM TO THE SHARKS…….SHARIA LAW IS VERY STRICT ABOUT BURIALS…..RSK
AL-AZHAR SAYS SEA BURIAL OF OSAMA BIN LADEN A “SIN”
The most influential Islamic institution among Sunni Muslims has condemned the sea burial of Osama bin Laden. President Barack Obama’s spokesperson took great care to say that Bin Laden would receive a proper Islamic burial, but since he wanted to bury the body quickly (in accordance with Islamic law) and couldn’t find a country that would take the body (and probably also didn’t want to create a place of pilgrimage), Obama buried him at sea. He was trying to show the Islamic world that the U.S. is not at war with Islam, but ended up enraging many Muslims anyway.
“Bin Laden: Al Azhar, Sea Burial Is A Sin”
(ANSAmed) – CAIRO, MAY 2 – The body of Osama bin Laden must be buried in the ground, and throwing it into the sea would be a ‘sin’, said Mahmoud Ashour of the Al Azhar Academy of Islamic Research, the most prestigious Sunni educational institute, while speaking to ANSA.
The Al Azhar official rejected the idea of sea burial of the Al Qaida leader for “trivial motives”, explaining that even when someone drowns, the body must be searched for in order to be able to “bury it in the ground”. “They should bury it in the ground without putting anything on the grave,” explained Ashour, responding to a question about whether Osama bin Laden’s burial could become a sort of pilgrimage site.
EGYPT’S AL-ZAWAHRI, BIN LADEN’S DEPUTY, LIKELY NEXT LEADER OF AL-QAEDA
With Bin Laden dead, Ayman al-Zawahri has become the leading candidate for the world’s top terror job. Al-Zawahri has often demonstrated his extremist views and his readiness to use violence.
In 2001 he set down the long-term strategy for the jihadi movement – to inflict “as many casualties as possible” on the Americans, while trying to establish control in a nation as a base “to launch the battle to restore the holy caliphate” of Islamic rule across the Muslim world.
Unlike Bin Laden who found his Jihadist calling as an adult, al-Zawahri’s activism began when he was in his mid-teens, establishing his first secret cell of high school students to oppose the Egyptian government of then President Anwar Sadat he viewed as infidel for not following the rule of God.
After al-Zawahri trained as a doctor he travelled to Afghanistan to treat Islamic fighters battling Soviet forces. It was then that he first met Bin Laden.
Another potential Bin Laden replacement is Abu Yayha al-Libi, from Libya. More on him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Yahya_al-Libi.
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