UK mosques refuse to bury Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi

Mosques in Britain refused to perform the last rites of Salman Abedi, the suicide bomber who blew himself up at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester earlier this year, killing 22 victims. The remains of the 22-year-old were flown to Tripoli in Libya, the country of his origin, where the burial was conducted, according to ‘The Sun’. But he was still reportedly denied an Islamic burial ceremony.

“After Manchester mosques refused to bury the remains of terrorist Salman Abedi, British authorities allowed his family to move him to Libya, where he was buried in Tripoli,” claims Noman Benotman, of anti-extremist think tank Quilliam. Abedi grew up in Britain and is thought to have visited the North African country from where his parents had emigrated regularly in the last six years. Libya is a hotspot for the Islamic State (ISIS) terror network and Abedi is believed to have been trained in bomb- making by an ISIS explosives expert, a former car mechanic from the West Midlands region of the UK.

The news of his burial emerged as another media report claims the UK’s intelligence officials missed key warnings that could have put the Manchester bomber under surveillance as a “high-priority” target. ‘The …read more