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Normandy attack: Muslim leaders refuse to bury priest killer
Normandy attack: Muslim leaders refuse to bury priest killer Adel Kermiche
Adel Kermiche one of the terrorists who murdered an 85- year-old priest during morning mass in Normandy last Tuesday has been denied a Muslim burial by local religious leaders.
Kermiche, 19, and his accomplice Abdelmalik Petitjean, were shot dead by police after slitting the throat of Father Jacques Hamel and wounding one of the hostages when they stormed the church at Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.
One religious leader said granting Kermiche a Muslim burial would “taint Islam”.
Father Jacques Hamel
Mohammed Karabila, Imam and president of the local Muslim cultural association,told Le Parisien that the local community would not aid Kermiche’s burial, irrespective of the wishes of the killer’s family.
"We won't participate in preparing the body or the burial", he said.
Under Muslim tradition burials should take place as soon as possible after somebody has died.
Kermiche has been disowned by local Muslims such as Khalid El Amrami, who described the murder of the priest as sinful.
According to Le Parisien religious leaders across France have rallied together in the wake of the attack amid fears of that the wave of attacks could lead to an anti-Muslim backlash.
In April Manuel Valls, the French Prime Minister, said that a majority of the country's population saw Islam as being incompatible with the values of the Republic.
Senior Muslims have urged the faithful to attend local masses to demonstrate their solidarity while bishops have urged congregations to welcome them.
In Bordeaux, 400 people attended a multi-faith service of reflection and prayer , while in Lyon a similar number participated in a silent march to demonstrate that all France was united against terrorism.
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The vast majority of Muslims disdain the likes of ISIS and more and more are expressing their contempt for them.
We here in the West have been brainwashed by those wanting to use the ISIS terrorism for their political gain, but the fact is that ISIS terrorism kills many more Muslims than Christians. We here in the West just publicize the Christian deaths.
Muslims Are the VICTIMS of “Between 82 and 97% of Terrorism-Related Fatalities”: US Government
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Good points.
I think that this gesture by these Muslim leaders is important.
It will serve as education to those in the West that these murderers stand outside of Islam as practiced by the overwhelming majority of Muslims.
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Goose wrote:
Good points.
I think that this gesture by these Muslim leaders is important.
It will serve as education to those in the West that these murderers stand outside of Islam as practiced by the overwhelming majority of Muslims.
So true.
We ALL need to look inward first. It is all too easy to blame the "other guy".
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Not only is this important as a good will gesture to the West, of greater significance is the signal this may send to terrorists that there are certain boundaries of barbarity over which they dare not cross.
There was a step in that direction last September when one of the ISIS affiliates burned a downed pilot alive in an iron cage; the Imams denounced the action as being "contrary to Islam" because death by fire is a punishment which only God may inflict (think the destruction of Sodom).
Now in Imams are showing that vile actions have consequences. May the lesson be learned, and quickly.
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