Mumbai – Indian Muslims say they do not want the gunmen killed by the security forces during the attacks in Mumbai to be buried in Muslim graveyards.
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Community leaders believe the militants cannot be called Muslims because they went against the teachings of Islam and killed innocent civilians.
One leader said the militants had “defamed” the religion.
Nine militants died when they stormed targets in India’s financial capital, killing at least 172 people.
‘Unprovoked’
In what is perhaps their first openly defiant act against “Islamic terrorism”, Muslims in India have decided they will not allow the militants to be buried in Muslim graveyards anywhere in the country.
They said that they could not believe that the assailants, who they said had “killed innocent civilians unprovoked”, were true followers of Islam.
Ibrahim Tai, the president of the Indian Muslim Council, which looks after the social and religious affairs of the Muslim community in India, said that they had “defamed” his religion.
“They are not Muslims as they have not followed our religion which teaches us to live in peace.
“If the government does not respect our demands we will take up extreme steps. We do not want the bodies of people who have committed an act of terrorism to be buried in our cemeteries.
“These terrorists are a black spot on our religion, we will very sternly protest the burial of these terrorists in our cemetery,” he said.
Other Muslim groups have written to their local assembly representatives to say that if the authorities force the militants to be buried in a Muslim graveyard, they too will come out on the streets in protest.
The council move found some support in Mumbai.
One Muslim housewife, Ruksana Sayeed, said: “We Muslims do not even kill an ant, our religion does not teach all this, we are against all these terrorists and I completely agree with the Muslim Council’s argument.”
However, Naseem Ahmed, a Muslim worker in the city, said the council was wrong.
“They are Muslims and they can be buried even if they have done something wrong. Our religion does not say that those who have done evil can’t be buried in a cemetery,” he said.
The gunmen held dozens of people hostage in two luxury hotels and a Jewish centre for over 60 hours before they were killed by commandos.
India is believed to have the world’s largest Muslim population after Indonesia.
Maybe just maybe there is some hope for the world if all Muslims of good will would denounce such acts.
do not call them moslims. call them terrorists. leave their bodies in the streets and let society “take care” of their body, like they do to their victims. maybe their bodies should be hung and displayed to the public, just like the terrorists did with the bodies of the lynched israeli soldiers. the bodies of these terrorist do not deserved to be buried. at all. anywhere. they should sit out and rot and decompose and then be fed to animals.
Drop them from an airplane over Pakistan. Oh, but that would inflame the Arab street. And we don’t want to inflame the Arab street…
Lakelef Tashlichin Oysum….Let the dogs enjoy them for dinner..Why are they worried where to bury them..Burn them and send their ashes home to their parents..
they should left on the streets to ROT!
why not hang the terrorists so the birds have some free food
This has got to be one of the first time that we’ve seen prominent Muslim leadership calling a terrorist a terrorist. Usually they sugarcoat it and call them “freedom fighters” or whatever.
Maybe they’re finally realizing what sort of animals these extremists are. One can only hope.
This is a crucial step if muslims all over the world will follow it might stop these animals
Interesting.
I don’t remember hearing what they did with other terrorist bodies like in the Sept 11 attacks.
In this enormous tragedy this a good sign . Apparently they acknowledge that innocent people were murdered
I disagree as to how the lone living terorist should be dealt with. What would be nice is to have him tied up standing and let the families of the victims cut their bodies piece by pice while they stay alive and let them wither in pain. Then a doctor should come and give some pain medication and start the process all over again. After the piece of garbage dies i say pour water and cement on all muslim countries and make one big parking lot for the party.
BS”D
These bodies need to be coated in pig fat and thrown to wild tigers of which India still has a few (dogs will not finish them in time or in full).
This is a grate start.
burn them just like most other indians are “buried.”
youre all off the wall maybe we shud throw them to the brits cuz they were britishpakis and maybe thell stop being friends with evil?
What liberl rag is the original souce of this piece of garbage called journalism???
Goodgrief, even the Muslims quoted in called the acts terrorism and the perpetrators terroists but the author of this so called article calls them gunmen, militants and assailants! and will only say “islamic terrorism” in quotation marks!!!