Exclusive: San Bernardino shooters buried in quiet funeral following Islamic rituals

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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-san-bernardino-shooters-buried-quiet-funeral-following-003855115.html

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who opened fire on a San Bernardino holiday party earlier this month, were buried Tuesday in a quiet, graveside funeral.

Many of those who attended mosque with the couple refused to attend, two mosque members said.

U.S.-born Farook, 28, and his Pakistani-born wife Malik, 29, killed 14 people and injured 21, in what U.S. officials have called a terrorist attack. They died later that day in a gun battle with police.

The funeral followed traditional Islamic rituals, said an attendee. At a Muslim cemetery hours away from San Bernardino, the bodies were cleansed according to Islamic rules, wrapped in white cloth and buried.

The funeral attendee and another person familiar with the situation, both of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, said it took a week to find a graveyard willing to accept the bodies.

They said the husband and wife were ultimately buried in a cemetery far from San Bernardino, after a closer facility refused to take the bodies because of fears the graves would be desecrated. Neither person would identify the cemetery where the couple was buried.

Obama to go visit SB.....this must be the real reason he is going. Visit their grave site.

[musiclady]

Obama to go visit SB.....this must be the real reason he is going. Visit their grave site.

And give them the homage he thinks they deserve.............

[mountaineer]

Obama to go visit SB.....this must be the real reason he is going. Visit their grave site.

Would anything he does surprise us?   

[flowers]

Would anything he does surprise us?   

no

[Fishrrman]

I read elsewhere (sorry, I don't have a link) that the funeral was guarded by F.B.I. agents.

Think about that for a moment.

Why was the government protecting these people?

Hopefully, after the surveillance dies down, someone will have good sense and poor a few bottles of pig's blood over both graves!

[Right_in_Virginia]

I guess we should be grateful Sparky didn't give the eulogy.