Poll: Bin's Laden Body Being Handled In Islamic Tradition

[Krythe]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110502/ts_nm/us_obama_binladen_body_islam

As an American, I'd like to say: Fuck that, they should stuff his corpse and mount it on the white-house lawn.

 

[Volkov]

Any corpse deserves A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF respect, including the corpse of a criminal. Including an international criminal, a war criminal, a terrorist, etc.

 

[LobsterFeng]

Reference to the Simpsons, all of the world's peace leaders should line up around his grave, and spit in it. In all seriousness though, whatever.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

As an American, I'd like to say: that's messed up, man.

OT: Sure. No problems here.

 

[dkyros]

I would say that allowing his body to go public would be a mistake.

 

[Souplex]

Still say instead of killing him we should have given him the best view of New York Riker's has to offer.

 

[Naeberius]

Put his corpse on trial. That could be fun.

 

[Jonluw]

I wouldn't say he has deserved the dignity, but it's all about showing yourself as the better man, I guess.

 

[Mr. Grey]

This allows a bridge of peace.

All people have to do is cross it or they can burn it, but the chance is there that we can all move on to the other side. You can't do that by stuffing his corpse and mounting him on the White House lawn.

Besides, the garden gnomes would be offended that they have to share space. They're very territorial.

 

[WorldCritic]

Take a picture of the body first to get rid of my doubt and then you can do what you want with it.

 

[internetzealot1]

Islamic tradition? You mean they hang it over the largest street in the city for three day?

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Well, it all depends on whether or not you think he deserves it. As for me, no. But at the very least he deserves a burial.

Of course, even dogs deserve to be buried.

 

[NeutralDrow]

No need to piss off more people than is needed. His followers aren't going to give a crap, but fence-sitters and the more religious of our allies will appreciate the gesture.

It's called diplomacy.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I wouldn't say he has deserved the dignity, but it's all about showing yourself as the better man, I guess.

This. All this rejoicing at his death? Anybody remember the rejoicing around the world at 9/11? How can we claim to be better if we sink to that level? Besides, mistreating the remains would be needlessly provocative, like smoking in the room with the powderkeg.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

As an American, I'd like to say: Fuck that, they should stuff his corpse and mount it on the white-house lawn.

As an American, I'd ask why you want one of our dead enemies on our lawn? Eeeww....

Send his "remains" back for a respectful burial. I'm betting they don't much more than fill a largish bucket at this point anyway. Further vengeance at this point is, well, pointless.

 

[Agayek]

Any corpse deserves A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF respect, including the corpse of a criminal. Including an international criminal, a war criminal, a terrorist, etc.

There's something fundamentally wrong about the belief that a corpse deserves respect. It's a corpse. Regardless of whatever your religious beliefs (or lack thereof) are, the corpse is no longer the individual, and therefore is no more worthy of respect than a rock. It's an inanimate lump of matter, there's nothing distinguishing it from any other inanimate mass.

Edit: That said, there's also no reason to defile the body. Just leave it there and let it rot for a while, or bury/cremate it if you're overly worried about disease.