Scholar Predicts Entire Arabian Sea Will Become Osama Shrine (Martyr's Sea)

[tekisui]

Source: Slate

The White House says that it buried Osama Bin Laden at sea, in part, to deny his followers the chance to create a shrine honoring the al-Qaida leader.

Turns out, things might not work out as planned.

One of Britain’s leading Islamic scholars claims that some radical Muslims are already calling the Arabian Sea the "Martyr’s Sea" and that the entire body of water could soon become the site of a pilgrimage, the Daily Mail reports.

“Given Muslim ideas of holiness diffusing over large areas it is possible that a pilgrimage will develop as radicals stand on beaches contemplating the virtues of their dead hero,” Abdal Hakim Murad, Cambridge University’s Muslim chaplain, reportedly said in an interview on British radio.

Murad was also critical of the decision to bury Bin Laden in the Arabian Sea in the first place, saying that a number Islamic scholars have deemed the move “religiously improper.”

more: http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/05/06/bin_laden_burial_islamic_scholar_predicts_entire_arabian_sea_wil.html

[JoePhilly]

1. Should have shot him into space I guess.

[ClarkUSA]

2. !!!

:rofl:

[WinkyDink]

4. Oh, then they'd call it the Bin Laden Galaxy.

[Solomon]

8. Yeah, but they would have to go there for pilgrimage.

:thumbsup:

[NYC Liberal]

5. Or a volcano.

[Solomon]

9. Better. LOL

[WinkyDink]

3. WTH CARES?!

[NYC Liberal]

6. The poor fish, that's who!!

Think of the FISH!

[Solomon]

10. Damn. That's pretty cold.

LOL

[Cerridwen]

7. "daily mail"?

Hinky source and I'm wondering if this 'scholar' predicted the uprisings in North Africa.

Off to google.

Oh, and it wouldn't have mattered *what* was done, it would have been wrong to someone. Better to focus on the fact that President Obama succeeded where bush failed.

edit: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1052015

[JuniperLea]

11. It really doesn't matter...

Not in the least.

I can't see how showing more respect to a terrorist than he showed the thousands he killed makes any sense at all. And nothing anyone can say or do will turn the tide on all the Obama hating, foreign or domestic.

[Ikonoklast]

12. Funny, I've read that most Moslems were happy he got capped.

Of course, there are more 'Islamic scholars' of so many different stripes as to be meaningless.

It's kinds like saying a Mennonite bishop gets to say how Southern Baptists will react.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Uncle Sam: "Too bad we dropped his ass in the Mediterranean."

Dumbasses.

[Godhumor]

14. "holiness diffusing over large areas"? Homeopathic martyrdom?

Interesting...

[Skip_In_Boulder]

15. Hmmm, maybe it's time to go into

the boat touring business on the Arabian peninsula.

[Javaman]

16. In a recent development...

another scholar claims the very air we breath is also a shrine. Since Bin Laden also breathed.

Pilgrims of Bin Laden are now capturing as much as they can in mason jars and warn all those who breath air that they will be shot.

This reporter held his breath during the interview and was quickly revived with pure clean infidel air afterward.