جنازة إسلامية لمايكل جاكسون؟ياترى هل سيعتنق بعض معجبيه الإسلام ،ويجعل الفضول البعض للبحث عن الإسلام؟
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جنازة إسلامية لجاكسون.. الثلاثاء |
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دبي- العربية: ذكرت مصادر تدعي أنها مقربة من أسرة ملك البوب الراحل مايكل جاكسون أن مراسم تشييع جنازته يوم الثلاثاء القادم ستتم وفقا للشريعة الإسلامية في إشارة واضحة علي أنه مات مسلما.. وكانت صحف بريطانية ذكرت في نوفمبر الماضي أنه اعتنق الدين الإسلامي. علي خطي شقيقه "جيرمين" الذي أسلم عام 1989 وأقام عدة سنوات في مملكة البحرين. |
Michael Jackson to be buried in $25,000 gold-plated coffin at funeral set to be ‘greatest show on Earth’
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 3:30 PM on 03rd July 2009
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Memorial service to be held Tuesday with up to a million fans expected to pay their respects
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Star expected to be buried in the same casket used to bury James Brown
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Plans for Neverland service scrapped
It was ordered last night from America’s Batesville Casket Company and is identical to the coffin used to bury James Brown in 2006, according to TMZ, the website which first broke the news of the King of Pop’s death.
Jackson will be buried in a $25,000, solid bronze, 14-karat gold plated, custom casket similar to the one James Brown was also buried in
Jackson’s memorial service will take place on Tuesday at the LA Lakers basketball stadium, the Staples Center, where he rehearsed for his scheduled comeback concerts at The O2 just two days before his death.
The Center has a 20,000 capacity and the family is planning to distribute 11,000 tickets free to the general public.
Big screens outside the venue will relay the events inside to around one million people who are expected to assemble to pay their respects from 10am onwards.
Paying his respects: Michael Jackson at the funeral of James Brown, whose coffin design he has copied, in Augusta on December 30, 2006
The memorial will feature performances and tributes from a host of music and acting legends and will open with a parade of circus animals, including tigers and elephants walking trunk to tail - part of LA’s annual Parade Of The Elephants.
The parade, devised by The Ringling Bros Barnum And Bailey Circus, which has had to postpone it show at the Staples Center.
A spokesman for the circus said Tuesday’s event would be the ‘greatest show on Earth’, exactly the phrase Jackson used in 2002 when asked what he thought his funeral would be like.
Eerily, Jackson replied: ‘It’s going to be the greatest show on Earth. That’s what I want. Fireworks and everything.’
Footage of Jackson’s rehearsals at the Staples Center show him in apparently good shape
Among the guests expected to attend the memorial service are Diana Ross, Elizabeth Taylor and Sir Paul McCartney.
President Barack Obama has also been invited, one report claims, and last night he spoke for the first time about the singer’s death. He said: ‘I still have all his stuff on my iPod. I grew up on his music.’
He added that he thought Jackson had experienced ‘a tragic and in many ways sad personal life’.
After the memorial, there will be a private ceremony at Forest Lawn cemetery in Hollywood which will be attended by family and close friends only.
But Jackson’s long-term friend and producer Quincy Jones said that he will not be going. He said: ‘No. I’m not going to the funeral. I don’t wanna go to no funeral. It’s not what I want to see.’
Up to a million fans are expected to attend Michael Jackson’s funeral at The Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday
Randy Phillips, chief executive of AEG Live, which owns the Staples Center and was Jackson’s promoter, confirmed tickets would be free, but could not say exactly how they would be distributed.
‘As we speak, we’re working on the details,’ he said.
The Barnum & Bailey Circus spokesman said the company was happy to help in ‘exceptional circumstances’ .





























