Dust catchers for Satan’s shelves
It appears that nobody wants the remains of the 9/11 hijackers. The linked article is a year old, and I’m not finding anything more recent.
It is believed that the murderers’ relatives do not wish to be identified with them, even though their religion would allow them to have the remains and does value burial of the dead.
Mass murder in the name of a false religion in a selfish quest for a fantasy afterlife might put you among some perceived elite on earth, but in reality the only one who will claim you is the devil, because he has a hoarding problem and just keeps packing in the damned.
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That is very interesting…something I would not have thought of.
[1] Posted by B. Hunter on 9-11-2012 at 11:25 AM · [top]
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
[2] Posted by The Plantagenets on 9-11-2012 at 05:10 PM · [top]
Plantagenets, I think they knew what they were doing.
At some point these remains should be put in pauper’s graves in a public cemetery somewhere, not in a Muslim cemetery. If their families do not want to acknowledge them they are well-served.
[3] Posted by Katherine on 9-11-2012 at 05:53 PM · [top]
Maybe, I should have qualified my post. Yes, the 9/11 terrorists were adults who were absolutely criminally liable for conspiracy to commit terrorism with weapons of mass destruction as the government put it. But I think that we’re also challenged as Christians to see them as creatures, although not sons, of God who tragically missed core truths about life and God’s grace. And yes, like Hitler it’s probably dangerous to give them public graves that could be abused, but I hope that our country can participate in showing them grace.
[4] Posted by The Plantagenets on 9-11-2012 at 06:30 PM · [top]
I do think that our country is behaving honorably in this case, not releasing the remains to any but DNA-proven relatives.
There can be abuses both ways; making them relics for veneration on the one hand or targets for symbolic desecration on the other.
So I think that the government does the right thing by keeping them locked away, pending release to actual family if that request is made.
[5] Posted by Timothy Fountain on 9-11-2012 at 06:56 PM · [top]
I am inclined to agree with Katherine. Certainly their remains should not be desecrated or abused. But a pauper’s grave is showing “proper respect” (but no more) so I would have thought that is reasonable.
There is a very strong point to be made here: When someone inevitably complains, the retort is compelling: “The remains were identified, and were available to be claimed by relatives. None ever did. So we did exactly what we do with every other unclaimed body, we gave it a decent unmarked paupers burial. This is what everyone else gets in such a situation so there is no discrimination or mistreatment”
That emphasises that even their own families and their religious comrades were ashamed of them and did not want to claim their remains. So much for being “heroes of Islam”....
[6] Posted by MichaelA on 9-11-2012 at 09:12 PM · [top]
” If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. Ecclestiass 6:3
Maybe they should be buried in a pig skin.
[7] Posted by PROPHET MICAIAH on 9-12-2012 at 12:21 PM · [top]
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