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"It is our job to bury him in the Muslim way," said Junnun Choudhury, secretary of the Jamaica Muslim Center at the New York city. Shafayet Reja, a 22-year-old Muslim, died in a car accident last month while returning from a Ramadan iftar at Stony Brook's Muslim Students Association. Immediately, his Hindu mother and Muslim father decided to cremate his body in Hindu tradition. Reja, who graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2007, was studying to be a licensed insurance broker. Some of Reja's close friends said that he told them about his wish to have a Muslim burial. "It was the community's business because the community knew he (Reja) was a Muslim," said Choudhury. In Islam, cremation is prohibited as it is disrespectful to the dead body and Islam calls for respecting human beings whether alive or dead. It is an obligation on Muslims as a community to ensure that every Muslim who dies is properly washed, shrouded, and buried according to the teachings of Islam. The Muslim minority in the US is estimated between six to seven million. Family Choice Reja's parents insist that the burial of their son was a private issue. "This is a family decision," Farhad, the mother, said. "This is America." The family says that the Muslim protest against their son's cremation was a violation of their civil rights. "We have freedom of religion, and we have the Constitution," said the Rejas' son Mishal, 19, who studies at Washington University in St. Louis. "Why would they bother us? It's none of their business. Even if he was the most hard-core Muslim." The family had turned down pleas by several American Muslims to reverse their decision to cremate the Muslim son. Furthermore, the family filed a complaint with the Police Department's hate crimes unit alleging that some Muslims accosted them at their son's funeral and threatened to boycott and bomb their shopping center in Jackson Heights, Queens. But Muslims, who protested against the family decision, refuted the claims. "(We did not call for boycott, but protesting the cremation was) a social obligation and a religious obligation," said Zakaria Masud, Secretary of the Jackson Heights Bangladeshi Business Association. |
__._,_.___Who gave you the right to say I am hindu sympathiser or not? I am a sympathiser of human being. Wht's wrong in being a hindu sympathiser? You do not have any business in it. You proved by your postings that how rude and inhuman you are!!! Please stay off of doing showdowns for nothing. Never become an issue personal. You are living in a non-muslim country, eating from them, living with their mercy, and they want you to be non-racial. But you are inflaming the racist fire. You do not understand it, and only wish that God someday will help you to be human above any racism.
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: shossain456@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:29:01 -0700
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Mina Farah burnt his muslim rojader son insted of burried , a humble question to "sushil'n HR groups
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Mina Farah burnt his muslim rojader son insted of burried , a humble question to "sushil'n HR groups
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 3:39 PM
Since she is a hindu, she did burn her son in the hindu way, I do not see anything wrong in it. She lost her son. She must be grieving a lot. Folks! she is human being. What the criticizers are doing, making triple mistakes: (1) On her worst time of the life, they are giving her serious troubles instead of comforting her, (2) She is hindu, she burnt her dead son, there is nothing wrong in it but they are asking for punishing her more, means, trying to create another hindu-muslim confrontation by which many lives may go, (3) As a mother she has every right to do what ever she wants, with the deadbody of her son, not breaking the rule of the country, and she did not do that, but still these people are accusing her, which is just unacceptable. This only shows that some people can be so illogical, impractical, inhuman, and extreme selfish in just their own attitude; being even extremely wrong.
To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
From: shossain456@ yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:01:48 -0700
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Mina Farah burnt his muslim rojader son insted of burried , a humble question to "sushil'n HR groups
--- On Tue, 9/16/08, Robin Khundkar <rkhundkar@earthlink .net> wrote:From: Robin Khundkar <rkhundkar@earthlink .net>
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Mina Farah burnt his muslim rojader son insted of burried , a humble question to "sushil'n HR groups
To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 8:51 AM
I agree completely with Cyrus. It is not our business how Mina Farah handles her personal matters. Mr. Aminul Islam should keep his nose within the parameters of his own family.Robin Khundkar-----Original Message-----
From: Cyrus
Sent: Sep 15, 2008 10:22 AM
To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Mina Farah burnt his muslim rojader son insted of burried , a humble question to "sushil'n HR groups
Mr. Aminul Islam....no one cares if you demand exemplary punishment of Mina Farah. We demand exemplary punishment of those who advocate for throwing stones at women, burn down temples, rape and ravage women of other faith, discriminate against anyone who doesn't subscribe their way. How about we start there? Please, don't even try to tell me that this is what Islam preaches. I know enough about Islam to know that IT IS the most secular of all religions, and hatred has no place in it.Mina Farah, an exemplary and accomplished businesswoman and a tremendous writer, decided what she felt was the right thing to do for her family. If she did wrong, she is accountable to God, and not you. You, Sir, should worry about your family and how you will be burried, and not interfere into her decision.Cyrus
----- Original Message ----
From: Md. Aminul Islam <aminul_islam_ raj@yahoo. com>
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Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 5:23:17 AM
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Mina Farah burnt his muslim rojader son insted of burried , a humble question to "sushil'n HR groups
Dear all,May be you all are shocked at the sad news that a Muslim youth was died in a accident in USA. His mother so called controversial writer Mina fara oppose his funeral in Muslim rituals and finally burnt him.He was a pious Muslim. He attended a ifter mahfil on that day.Dear susil sujon secular groups why dont you protest the inhuman anti muslim act?Then your secularism means opposition of islam?we demand exemplary punishment of Mina.
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