There’s a Huge Catch in the ‘Imams Refuse Funeral Prayers for London Jihadis’ Story, by Robert Spencer.

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) gained worldwide headlines — and praise — for its announcement last week that 130 imams in the United Kingdom were refusing to perform funeral prayers for the London jihad mass murderers. …

Moderate Muslims stood up at last, right? … This all sounds great, but there’s just one catch.

Muhammad himself is depicted in hadiths as forbidding funeral prayers for martyrs. Islamic law forbids such prayers as well.

To be clear: Withholding funeral prayers is an HONOR reserved for those who die while committing jihad. …

What Rex Tillerson — and much of the Western world, and certainly much of Western media — took as a great show of Muslim rejection of terrorism was actually a display of Muslim adherence to Islamic law, Muslim acceptance of terrorist deaths as Islamic martyrdom, and application of Muhammad’s dictum “war is deceit” (Bukhari 4.52.268).

hat-tip Stephen Neil