More Muslim burials without legal obligation for coffins

November 7, 2013   Like other German cities and States, the city of Rüsselsheim in the State of Hesse permits Muslims to bury their dependent community members according to Islamic faith and rituals. The graves are headed towards Mekka and include religious texts. Since March 1st 2013, the cemetery and funeral law of Hesse permits…

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A Muslim daughter’s role in preparing her mother for burial – by Momtaz Begum-Hossain

October 25, 2013 I saw a wooden coffin, I answered the phone call to tell us that Umma, as we called our mother in Bengali, had left us, and later that same night saw her lying still like a ragdoll in the hospital ward. The burial was almost immediate. Within hours I was at the…

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Virginia county officials say they’re trying to determine if laws broken in Marathon bombing suspect’s secret burial

DOSWELL, Va. — Officials in the county where the remains of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev have been buried say they were stunned to learn of the burial and they are looking into whether the law was followed in the process. “As long as everything was done legally, there’s really very little we can…

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Where do we put Tamerlan Tsarnaev?

Worcester is some 40 miles from Boston, but it was no means unaffected by the Marathon bombing.  Worcester shares a close connection with Boston as many in the Worcester area work in Boston and we all know the city well.  The Boston Marathon bombing was not simply a local tragedy; it was a crime committed…

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Bomb suspect’s uncle, in Mass., says he knows ‘no one wants to associate … with such evil’

WORCESTER, Mass. — The uncle of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect killed in a gun battle with police arrived at a funeral home Sunday to make arrangements for his burial. Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., and three other men met with Worcester funeral home director Peter Stefan. The men who accompanied Tsarni plan to…

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