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In reply to the discussion: No One Wants To Bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)THEY don't believe what you believe, that he no longer has a religion. They believe that the burial ceremony is ENTIRELY religious and that delay of burial is a sin under Islamic law. They believe that desecration of a corpse by failing to bury it appropriately is a grave (not to be 'pun'ny) crime.
So, we've got YOU on the one hand, and a bunch of religious people -- many who might not agree with what this bomber did, but who still want him buried within the tenets of his faith--on the other. Some of those religious people will be very upset if this continues on for too much longer. You wanna go tell it like it is to them?
I can promise you, you won't convince them. Their view is that your misguided "infidel" POV ensures you an afterlife of misery (to put it mildly), and you won't persuade them otherwise. They just don't care what you think, and there are more of them than you.
I hope the Denver offer can resolve this. If not, I think they need to cut to the chase and bury him at sea.