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A popular pro-Islamic State (ISIS) cleric, who is based in Michigan, said that Muslim police officers who die in the line of duty should be prohibited from receiving Islamic burial rites.
"Their Corpses Shouldn't Even Be Allowed Within The Vicinity Of A Mosque"
The cleric, Ahmad Musa Jibril, asserted in a Telegram post on September 4, 2024, that Muslim police officers, slain in the line of duty, are "absolutely forbidden" from receiving Islamic burial rites because of their oath to uphold the US constitution and defend it.[1] Jibril argued that such an oath is in contradiction to the Islamic Shari'a, and therefore officers who have pledged the oath have committed "a nullifier of Islam barring duress" which prohibits them from receiving an Islamic burial.
He wrote: "Police officers who give the commonly known and generic 'Oath,' by choice and at their free-will, which includes upholding the US Constitution and defending it, along with other man-made systems of governance that contradict the Shari'ah of Allah (among the numerous other Islamic violations of being a police officer in the US) – have committed a nullifier of Islam barring duress, and those who die in such a state are absolutely forbidden from having a Janazah [Muslim funeral], nor Tarahum be performed upon them, rather, their corpses shouldn't even be allowed within the vicinity of a Masjid [mosque]."
Jibril also criticized Muslim clerics who perform burial rites for such officers, including by reciting Quranic verses in eulogies, accusing them of being "low status" and showing "absolute disrespect" of the holy texts of Islam.
"It highlights the widespread ignorance and lack of Tawheed [Oneness] that has festered within the communities at large," he commented, continuing in conclusion, "This is a time and age, when those who fight to establish The Laws of Allah on this earth are deemed as villains, while those who fight to uphold and protect the laws of the Taghut [tyrant] are referred to as heroes."
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