[lit-ideas] Re: Who killed Nick Berg?
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 05:47:40 -0700 (PDT)
--- JulieReneB@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I saw an article citing forensic folks a few days
> ago -- their conjecture
> was that Nick was already dead (and bled out) before
> the filming and that the
> video was staged for shock value. Desecration of a
> human body is a huge no-no
> in the culture.
Desecration of a dead body is, indeed, prohibited in
Islamic religion. But in Iraq, where thanks to the
British they have had a secular state, this matter has
been approached more liberally for some time. Check
out the Baath coup in 1963.
O.K.
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