Ethics

No Burial for Mumbai Terrorists?

By Ed Brayton

I have to confess that this kind of warms my little black heart a bit. Muslim cemetaries in Mumbai are refusing to allow the terrorists who killed some 200 people in Mumbai to be buried there.

A Muslim graveyard in the heart of Mumbai has broken with Islamic tradition and refused to bury the bodies of nine terrorists who were killed during the attack on India's financial capital.

The influential Muslim Jama Masjid Trust, which runs the 7.5-acre Badakabrastan graveyard, said it would not bury the gunmen because they were not true followers of Islam.

Hanif Nalkhande, a spokesman for the trust, said: "People who committed this heinous crime cannot be called Muslim. Islam does not permit this sort of barbaric crime."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 05, 2008 (boomark / email).