Monday, December 04, 2006

Dead Russian spy to be buried as a Muslim

Huh? HUH???
(Times Online) Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian intelligence agent poisoned in London, is to be buried according to Muslim tradition after converting to Islam on his deathbed.

The spy's father, Walter Litvinenko, said in an interview published today that his son - who was born an Orthodox Christian but had close links to Islamist rebels in Chechnya - made the request as he lay dying in University College Hospital.

"He said ’I want to be buried according to Muslim tradition’," Mr Litvinenko told Moscow's Kommersant daily.

Crossposted at Eye On The World.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, there are 10s of millions of Russian Muslims. God bless him.

James G. said...

I kept wondering what the missing piece of the puzzle was here. There was definitely something not being discussed in the newscasts I saw.

Epaminondas said...

Chechnya +
Beslan =
Polonium 4 u, Wherever u are, in public, so EVERYONE knows.

Russkis ain't subtle, son.

Message received?

I wonder if their scrotums are retracting somewhere from Sheeshan to Britain.

Even the Cheney of Sarandon's nightmares must be flipped out

Anonymous said...

Uh-huh. Meanwhile, I see the MSM is hand-wringing over the "mistreatment" of would-be dirty-bomb impressario Jose Padillo. The torture devices? Goggles and earphones. Sensory deprivation and information control? Sounds like a description of life as a female in Saudi Arabia. Yeah, I guess that could qualify as torture. Maybe it will confer upon Mr. Padillo some modicum of empathy with his would-be victims.

Anonymous said...

I hope they bury him with pig skin wraped around him.sk.