# What's a Muslim Funeral Without bombs? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 24, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241 "2008-11-24T13:31:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/21 "2008-11-25T05:23:41Z")
This thread isn’t getting nearly the credit it deserves. It’s fucking brilliant. [QUOTE=ralph124c] \*\* What’s a Muslim Funeral Without bombs?\*\* [/QUOTE] The first letter of every word is capitalized except “bombs.” Even “Without.” You don’t know why. There’s not a reason for that. It’s just awesome. > [@](#): > > As I see it, Go ahead and tell me that opening a thread about a religious group with this phrase has ever turned out any way but great. Go ahead and say it, and I won’t listen. It’s like driving down the highway and seeing a road sign that just says **WTF?!**. You don’t know exactly what’s around the bend, but you know it’s going to be awesome. > [@](#): > > very few Muslim funerals (Pakistan) This is a use of parenthetical with which I am unfamiliar. > [@](#): > > go off without a few hitches (bombs). This one’s better. A few bombs go off; I get it. > [@](#): > > yes, i know, i’m showing my prejudices..but, what the heck. Lost me. You posted a thread about how every single Muslim funeral involves a bombing, and didn’t even link to a story that would demonstrate why that was on your mind, so that for all the reader knows your cat just made a noise that sounded like “Allah” and got you to “thinking.” Which prejudices? ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/22 "2008-11-25T07:26:48Z")
I remember reading a couple of years ago about a wedding in Yemen where one of the guests, an older fellow in his 80’s, who in his exuberance, lost control of his rifle as he fired into the air and capped a couple of the other guests including shooting the bride in the head, killing her instantly. ‘Geez, Gramps. If you objected to the wedding why didn’t you just say so!’ This sort of behavior isn’t the exclusive domain of Muslims, though. ---
**Author:** ![Henrichek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/23 "2008-11-25T07:57:43Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > As I see it, very few Muslim funerals (Pakistan) go off without a few hitches (bombs). My question: whay are there such passions released at these affairs? What purpose is served by killing people in mourning? > yes, i know, i’m showing my prejudices..but, what the heck. You should ask the controllers of the US MQ9-Reapers that fire on them. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/24 "2008-11-25T09:08:56Z")
Although I am loathe to dignify the OP with a response, I will say that if you have a vendetta and you kill one person, his funeral is a great place to target like minded folks. Witness the Godfather when the boss goes after Vito’s family at a funeral, as well as the IRA incident mentioned above. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/25 "2008-11-26T08:45:13Z")
As I see it, very few Christian funerals (USA) go off without a few hitches (Fred Phelps). My question: whay are there such passions released at these affairs? What purpose is served by trolling people in mourning? yes, i know, i’m showing my prejudices…but, what the heck. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/26 "2008-11-26T08:57:07Z")
DNFTT > [@Polycarp](#): > > Seriously, Ralph, you ask some good questions when you can be bothered to think past glib generalizations – but you seem to enjoy the negative attitudes people bring to your stupid-generality posts. I think there’s a word for that…but what is it? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/27 "2008-11-26T11:11:13Z")
Every funeral home worth its salt offers a bomb option. It’s like hiring professional mourners, you do it so it looks like people cared about the deceased. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/28 "2008-11-26T12:59:26Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Every funeral home worth its salt offers a bomb option. It’s like hiring professional mourners, you do it so it looks like people cared about the deceased. I saw that in “Six Feet Under,” or else it was a documentary about funeral homes on TLC. Or maybe it was a hallucination after gobbling down a bag of magic muschrooms. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/29 "2008-11-26T13:17:07Z")
> [@](#): > > As I see it that’s where you went wrong, son. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/30 "2008-11-26T13:20:32Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Since you pose such an absurd question, I’ll just give you a wee tu quoque and suggest you ask (Christian Protestant) [Michael Stone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milltown_Massacre), who killed several at the funeral of IRA members in Belfast or the (Christian Catholic) IRA members who killed two [British Army personnel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporals_killings) who drove into the funeral cortege of one of Stone’s victims. I was gonna mention this. These killings (started by the killings in Gibraltar) were horridly illustrative of the cycle of violence in that conflict. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/31 "2008-11-26T23:23:37Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Every funeral home worth its salt offers a bomb option. It’s like hiring professional mourners, you do it so it looks like people cared about the deceased. [Daddy](http://www.webfh.com/fh/home/home.cfm?&fh_id=10418&ck=1) offers a wide array of bombs-your garden variety grenades, pipe bombs, and so on. There’s even a payment plan for the major ones-do you have any idea how _expensive_ those things can be? ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/32 "2008-11-26T23:54:19Z")
> [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](#): > > These bombs at the Muslim funerals–did the Muslims bring them with them, or were they dropped out of American planes? No you silly. American planes bomb weddings, not funerals. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/33 "2008-11-26T23:59:10Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > No you silly. American planes bomb weddings, not funerals. Or allied troops. Either way, not funerals. ---
**Author:** ![Henrichek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/34 "2008-11-27T00:35:35Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > No you silly. American planes bomb weddings, not funerals. Sorry, I seem to have made the same mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/35 "2008-11-27T01:25:25Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [Daddy](http://www.webfh.com/fh/home/home.cfm?&fh_id=10418&ck=1) offers a wide array of bombs-your garden variety grenades, pipe bombs, and so on. There’s even a payment plan for the major ones-do you have any idea how _expensive_ those things can be? The price increases exponentially in relation to the kill area. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/36 "2008-11-27T23:29:44Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > **ralph** , what percentage of your threads consist of you making an observation about some supposedly common phenomenon, and then 30 posters coming in and telling you that that phenomenon is in fact in no way common, or perhaps not existent at all? …followed by ralph vanishing like a ghost in the night? Honestly, why does anybody bother responding to him? He’s obviously a clueless dude with his confirmation bias set to ‘stun’. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/37 "2008-11-28T02:42:19Z")
**Ralph124p** - the SDMB’s very own Ralph Wiggum. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241/38 "2008-11-28T04:45:09Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > **Ralph124p** - the SDMB’s very own Ralph Wiggum. Ralph Wiggum’s trenchant observations were usually pretty accurate- I have no doubt, for example, that his cat’s breath really did smell like cat food. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-muslim-funeral-without-bombs/474241.md?page=1)