Boston : MA : USA | Apr 24, 2013 at 8:08 AM PDT 
The mosque in Boston that was attended regularly by Tamerlan Tsarnaev has declined to offer funeral services for the bomber who killed innocent people nine days ago during the Boston Marathon and brought shame to his family, his country and his religion.
A mosque official, Imam Talal Eid of the Islamic Institute of Boston, said Tsarnaev was on shaky ground with them for being previously disruptive during services and there was talk of banning him.
Earlier this week, Imam Talal Eid reportedly said, “I would not be willing to do a funeral for him. This is a person who deliberately killed people. There is no room for him as a Muslim.”
Tamerlan, who was killed in a shootout with police last Friday, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, allegedly became Islamic radicals during recent years and planned the bombings purportedly because they viewed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as an “attack on Islam.” It was the younger brother’s only explanation from his hospital bed, according to law enforcement officials.
The Boston bombings sparked one of the most intensive manhunts in US history, with concerns of a malevolent al-Qaida plot, but it apparently came down to two lone individuals who became radicalized via Internet mentors enough to think they could strike against the American infidels, then go about their business as if nothing happened.
The investigation continues as FBI officials, determined not to leave any stone uncovered, are traveling to Russia for more extensive inquiries with the brother’s family and connections.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R), who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, had this to say after several classified briefings, as reported by The New York Times:
“The increasing signals are that these were individuals who were radicalized, especially the older brother, over a period of time — radicalized by Islamist fundamentalist terrorists, basically using Internet sources to gain not just the types of philosophical beliefs that radicalized them, but also learning components of how to do these sorts of things.”
The FBI has offered to turn the body of Tamerlan over to his parents, but relatives in the US are having a hard time finding a mosque that will take his remains.
Meanwhile, funeral services were held Tuesday for Sean Collier, the MIT police officer who was gunned down in cold blood as he sat in his patrol car, and 8-year-old Martin Richard, who was at the marathon to hug his father as he crossed the finish line.
A public memorial service for Sean Collier will be attended by 10,000 people Wednesday, including Vice President Joe Biden.
Boylston Street, where the two bombings took place, reopened to the public Wednesday with fresh cement and other reparations, symbolic of Boston’s renewal, healing and heroic resilience.
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