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Quote of the Day: Imam Talal Eid of the Islamic Institute of Boston

“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. He already left the fold of Islam by doing that.”

— Imam Talal Eid of the Islamic Institute of Boston, speaking to the Huffington Post about why he wouldn’t conduct a Muslim funeral for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev

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