Michele Grant (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} opadit) wrote,@ 2008-05-08 10:20:00 |
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mosque burial denied on grounds of -- dressing like a woman
One more before I go into law school exile for the next ten days.
The police call that ultimately led to the murder of officer Steven Liczbinski a few days ago was a bank robbery in a supermarket. Afterward, in the robbers' stolen van, police found disguises, including women's Muslim veils and body coverings. The bank robber who killed police officer Liczbinski a few days ago belonged to the Germantown Masjid mosque here in town. The mosque leadership is refusing to conduct services or bury him at the mosque. Here's why:
One more before I go into law school exile for the next ten days.
The police call that ultimately led to the murder of officer Steven Liczbinski a few days ago was a bank robbery in a supermarket. Afterward, in the robbers' stolen van, police found disguises, including women's Muslim veils and body coverings. The bank robber who killed police officer Liczbinski a few days ago belonged to the Germantown Masjid mosque here in town. The mosque leadership is refusing to conduct services or bury him at the mosque. Here's why:
"We don't tolerate that kind of behavior," [director of the mosque, Tariq] El Shabazz said. "Their actions are not from Islam. You don't dress like a woman, you don't rob people or transgress against them or commit murder. On all three grounds, they are dead wrong" (Daily News).Yes, folks, the first reason that El Shabazz gives for denying a mosque burial for the cop killer and robber is that the criminals disguised themselves as women during the robbery. Of course, listing cross-dressing first doesn't necessarily connote primacy. But he has still listed it on a par with robbery and murder: they're all "dead wrong."
