Danish Muslim group offers to bury French priest killer

A Danish Muslim group has offered to bury one of the jihadists who murdered a French priest, after Muslim leaders in France refused to do so, a newspaper said Wednesday.

Adel Kermiche, a 19-year-old jihadist, was shot dead by French police on July 26 after he and another assailant attacked a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvroy in northern France, murdering priest Jacques Hamel and seriously injuring another hostage.

After standing in solidarity with Christians mourning the victims of the attack, Muslim leaders in France have refused to grant Kermiche an Islamic burial.

"It is a human right to be , no matter what you have done," Kasem Said Ahmad, who heads the Danish Islamic Burial Fund, told Danish daily Jyllands-Posten.

The church attack, which shocked France just days after the July 14 attack in Nice that left 84 people dead, "is an un-Islamic action that we naturally distance ourselves from," Ahmad said.

However, "if we get a request from the family to bury him, then we will do it... If they want to move his body here, he can be buried in Denmark in the Muslim cemetburiedery," he said.