>This is inaccurate then:
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>http://www.al-islam.org/laws/burial.html
>623. * If a person dies on a ship and if there is no fear of the decay of the dead body and if there is no problem in retaining it for sometime on the ship, it should be kept on it and buried in the ground after reaching the land. Otherwise, after giving Ghusl, Hunut, Kafan and Namaz-e-Mayyit it should be lowered into the sea in a vessel of clay or with a weight tied to its feet. And as far as possible it should not be lowered at a point where it is eaten up immediately by the sea predators.
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Of course that correct. If there is decay problem you can bury at sea.


>Update, Imam Khalid Latif , chaplain for New York University and Executive Director of the school's Islamic Center, has an interesting view:
>http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/02/my-take-burial-at-sea-shows-compassion-of-islamic-law/?hpt=T2

He just talks politics. I don't think like him. Bin Laden dead and noone cannot judge dead bodies. Dead bodies cannot feel pain. That body should give to his family. However we don't believe in death bodies are sacred like in jewish religion. This's just about respect to death body and his/her family. Even if he/she was a terrorist.