Hindu-Muslim Family’s Choice of Cremation Arouses Anger
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/nyregion/04cremate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
NEW YORK, USA, October 4, 2008: A decision of parents to cremate their deceased son has sparked religious turmoil.
Shafayet Reja, the son of a a Muslim father and a mother who was raised Hindu, died September 10 in a car accident; and his parents decided to follow the Hindu tradition of cremation rather than burying the body in a shroud as Islam prescribes.
The couple, Mina and Farhad Reja, say that some Muslims are now trying to intimidate them because of their choice–that they were accosted at their son’s funeral and have received threats to boycott their business.
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