Osama’s burial at sea is an insult to Muslims, says Minister

Published: Friday May 6, 2011 MYT 4:15:00 PM


SEPANG: The burial of Osama bin Laden at sea is an insult to Muslims, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom said Friday.

“This kind of thing should not happen because the dead must be respected,” he said when asked to comment on the reports that Osama, believed to have been the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in the US, was shot dead and was quickly buried in the northern Arabian sea last Monday.

Jamil Khir's opinion is similar to the views expressed by Muslim scholars around the world who regard the burial at sea as a violation of Islamic tradition.

Jamil Khir said:"If someone died at sea in a ship in those days, it was right for burial at sea. But today, on land? So this (the sea burial of Osama) is an insult to Muslims." - Bernama

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