This article does a good job of describing the atmosphere at Imam Luqman Abdullah’s funeral Saturday, which I was blessed to attend along with hundreds of others from all over the country.
Upset yet content with God’s will, Muslims called for justice Saturday at the funeral of an Islamic leader who was killed by FBI agents in a shootout last week.
More than 1,000 packed the Muslim Center in Detroit in a spillover crowd that was at times teary-eyed over the fatal shooting of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, a Muslim leader, or imam, who led another Detroit mosque. One speaker called him a martyr.
Muslims from metro Detroit, Virginia, New York, Philadelphia, and Atlanta attended the hour-long ceremony followed by a burial at Knollwood Memorial Park in Canton. At the burial, speakers urged the crowd not to seek revenge on the police or the informants they used in the case, saying that any punishment would come in the afterlife.
pi.info 10:29 am on November 1, 2009 Permalink |
They said Abdullah shot at a police dog, which prompted them to return fire, killing him.
I would be curious to know if there was an autopsy, if there any dog bites on him, or if his clothes were ripped or torn. It would be deliberately provocative to sick a dog on someone who would, of course, do anything to get it off…
shams 10:40 pm on November 1, 2009 Permalink |
Dude…we didn’t find out Scott Tillman died from friendly fire for nearly a year.
McCrystal started processing his death as Bush re-election propaganda the same day he died.
If a police dog bit Abdullah we will never find out.
mirelle 7:33 am on November 2, 2009 Permalink |
It’s Pat Tillman (a local hero and, by all accounts, someone who really questioned why we were in Afghanistan). And, even if we don’t know now if the dog bit Abdullah, I suspect there will be a lawsuit in the future and that information will be compelled. At the very least, a competent defense attorney for those who survived and were charged would at least ask for it.
shams 1:57 pm on November 2, 2009 Permalink |
sry, Pat.
Perhaps it will all come out in McChrystals eventual court-martial?
rawr.