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2013-05-12 | ||||
An Islamic community in the US state of Virginia is said to be in uproar after it emerged a Boston bombing suspect was buried at a nearby rural cemetery. An imam said local Muslims were upset their loved ones would have to use the same graveyard as that where Tamerlan Tsarnaev was secretly laid to rest. His body was interred on Thursday after protests at the Massachusetts funeral home where it was kept. Officials fear the site might become a shrine for anti-US sympathisers. Tsarnaev was interred at a small Islamic cemetery in a rural area just north of the state capital, Richmond. His burial follows a long search for a community that would accept the body, after several states rejected his remains. Imam Ammar Amonette, of the Islamic Center of Virginia, said the move made "no sense whatsoever".
County and state officials say they were not told of the burial in advance, although that is not required. Floyd Thomas, chairman of the board of supervisors for Caroline County, told CNN that if any protocols had been flouted in the burial, "we would look into undoing what happened". Martha Mullen, a private citizen of Richmond, is credited with having co-ordinated efforts behind the scenes to resolve the problem of where to bury Tsarnaev. "It was an interfaith effort," she told the Associated Press. "Basically because Jesus says love your enemies."
Preparations are believed to have been made by Ruslan Tsarni, the suspect's uncle, after Tsarnaev's widow, Katherine Russel
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Posted by:Besoeker |
#4 Heh. Speedbump could end up being the only one buried there. |
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2013-05-12 18:43 |
#3 "An imam said local Muslims were upset their loved ones would have to use the same graveyard as that where Tamerlan Tsarnaev was secretly laid to rest." So have their bodies moved. |
Posted by: Barbara 2013-05-12 18:31 |
#2 Should have dumped him into a swamp somewhere. Let him do some good being gator food. |
Posted by: Rjschwarz 2013-05-12 18:16 |
#1 How can Ms. Mullen arrange for a burial there without the local imam finding out about it in advance? I know of at least one other cemetery, a Catholic one, where burials have happened without the pastor knowing about it. It's inside of an Indian reservation. |
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-05-12 15:50 |