Stephen Prothero, a religion scholar at Boston University, writes on CNN’s Belief blog that burial at sea was “an elegant solution” to the quandary of what to do with the body, as it thwarts any tendency to turn bin Laden’s burial place into a pilgrimage site for extremists.
| Website | http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/02/my-take-burying-bin-laden-at-sea-an-elegant-solution/ |
| Author | Stephen Prothero |
| Publication | CNN |
| Date | May 2, 2011 |
| Categories | Beliefs & practices, Death, Foreign policy, Government & politics |
| Locations | United States of America |
| Faiths | Islam |
| Languages | English |