DOSWELL, Va. — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a cemetery in central Virginia, infuriating some members of the area’s Islamic community who say they weren’t consulted.
The secret interment this week at a small Islamic cemetery ended a frustrating search for a community willing to take the body, which had been kept at a funeral parlor in Worcester, Mass., as cemeteries in several states refused to accept the remains.
Imam Ammar Amonette of the Islamic Center of Virginia said that his group wasn’t consulted.
“The whole Muslim community here is furious. Frankly, we are furious that we were never given any information. It was all done secretly behind our backs,” Amonette said.
“Everybody who’s buried in that cemetery, their loved ones are going to have to go to that place,” he said.
The Al-Barzakh Cemetery’s website says “more than 12” Muslims are buried there and calls it the first all-Muslim cemetery in the central part of Virginia.
