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

[blankedboy]

Looks like there's 58 patriotic assholes lying aruond on this site. I thought we were better than that.

Anyway, he deserves respect. I mean, he outsmarted the entire American military for a shit-long time, he's clearly good at what he does.

 

[jovack22]

So many naive politically correct members here.

Bin Laden BEHEADED many, many people.
Did he bury them with dignity according to their religions?

Regardless, America only said this so that overly sensitive muslim activist groups won't overreact.

 

[2733]

even the most wicked man has a family who will morn him, send him home and let his loved ones handle the rest. we have no reason to do otherwise.

 

[Yarkaz]

As an american, I'd like to say so what? he's dead, make what you will of it. We have better things to think about then how his body is treated. Although thinking about it, letting his body be dealt with in Islamic tradition may help prolong a revenge attack for a short while... hrm...

 

[MMMowman]

Well you could do that but what will his supporters do in reaction. I think they are going to send him out to sea.

 

[nukethetuna]

The fact that he's dead should be enough for whatever political/victory message you want to send.
Whatever happens to the body is pretty unimportant in the long run. May as well be classy about it, I guess.

 

[Kortney]

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

And this would make you better than Al Qaeda.. how? Being violent, disrespectful and reactionary will not solve or justify anything other than your own anger.

 

[jovack22]

Just to add to what I said, I have seen videos of Al Qaeda's mujahedin beheading Serbian POWs during the 1991 Bosnian Civil war (yet religious warlords were coming in from the middle east..).
It's absolutely disgusting. It doesn't end there, many foreign soldiers/medics/journalists (Americans, British, etc) were beheaded during this current war in the middle east. None of those men were given any dignity whatsoever.

Giving him a "religious funeral" is purely a political move (obviously). The world is a messed up place.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Just cremate the damn thing already. It's taking up valuable space.

 

[TheRealCJ]

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.

Little bastards ate my neighbors dog last night.

 

[Bobbity]

No matter how much you might hate the guy, desecrating his corpse is going too far. Besides which, there's no need to aggravate Muslims by refusing to provide him with a religios burial.

 

[IvoryTowerGamer]

So many naive politically correct members here.

Bin Laden BEHEADED many, many people.
Did he bury them with dignity according to their religions?

Regardless, America only said this so that overly sensitive muslim activist groups won't overreact.

It has nothing to do with being "politically correct"; it's about being a decent human being.

You're right that Bin Laden certainly didn't treat his enemies with respect, but we're better than that. We're handling his body according to proper Islamic traditions because unlike him we aren't barbaric terrorists.

 

[havass]

I give less of a shit about his body being handled in islamic tradition than I gave about him being dead. Which was close to none already.

This isn't gonna change a god damn thing, so why bother thinking about it.

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

And what warrants that respect? The guy doesn't really give a shit anymore. Not that he can.

As a certain Auditore once said, "You are not Vieri. Do not become him."

OT: Fitting, I suppose. He might be a criminal and an international terrorist, but the dead still deserves respect.

 

[TheRealCJ]

Just because he's a worthless criminal, doesn't mean he doesn't deserve a proper burial. Can you imagine the outcry if all Condemned criminals in the US were just chucked on a bonfire?

But I can't help but wonder: If he wasn't a Muslim, would we be even asking this question?

 

[jovack22]

It has nothing to do with being "politically correct"; it's about being a decent human being.

You're right that Bin Laden certainly didn't treat his enemies with respect, but we're better than that. We're handling his body according to proper Islamic traditions because unlike him we aren't barbaric terrorists.

That would be a good point, except for the fact that America has done many, many barbaric things themselves throughout the years....

You do know that the Americans trained and armed bin Laden themselves right....

 

[jovack22]

They certainly should not disrespect his corpse, that would be ridiculously pointless, but I think they are going overboard with this burial thing.

Document the kill. Get evidence, then store/preserve/bury it (whatever the CIA has planned for it).

 

[Yarkaz]

Just because he's a worthless criminal, doesn't mean he doesn't deserve a proper burial. Can you imagine the outcry if all Condemned criminals in the US were just chucked on a bonfire?

But I can't help but wonder: If he wasn't a Muslim, would we be even asking this question?

Yes, and no... Osama was one of the biggest players in building the (unjust) bad rep Muslims have nowadays.

 

[CrystalShadow]

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.

Your statement shows a distinct lack of understanding of the principles of burial rituals.

Yes, in a manner of speaking you're showing respect to the corpse.
But in practical terms, you're showing respect to the people that cared about the dead person.

And considering that's a bunch of people who think you're evil incarnate, proving them right at every available opportunity (As in, being incredibly disrespectful of their beliefs) is only going to aggravate the situation.

A funeral is a ceremony for the living. Not the dead. Despite what it might appear to look like on the surface.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

He should be buried in the most discreet way possible. Don't "mount him" on the white house lawn. Don't make a "Giant religious Ceremony" or have a public Jummah(friday prayer) devoted to him, which is like the most respect you could pay to a Dead person in Islamic tradition. Don't draw attention to it, becuase that will ONLY have repercussions in varying flavors of "bad".

Just discreetly bury him in an Islamic graveyard somewhere with an unmarked gravestone, maybe in Afghanistan, maybe in America, don't matter, without anyone knowing. Ok maybe his next of kin.......if he has any.

THEN, once the Al-Qaeda has been effectively disbanded, and the War on Terror concluded, "accidentally Leak" the location of Laden's burial place. Just the graveyard, not even which specific Tomb. This both creates an entertaining Urban Legend, but prevents people from using it as a Symbolic rallying point. Thoughts?