I am sorry, but this is just wrong!
It is disrespectful – and wrong.
For the US to actually provide Osama bin Ladin’s body with the proper Islamic burrial is not just wrong, it is actively immoral!
It will prolong the fighting and cause many more deaths in the long run.
Of course, it is wrong to give respect where it is not due. Doing so diminishes respect which is earned. As such, Osama bin Ladin did not deserve respect – in life or in death.
Plus – when somebody orders the extrajudicial execution of another human being, that ‘respect’ train has long left the station…
But, ‘respect’ is a key issue here: showing ‘respect’ by following Sharia in having a Muslim perform all the ‘proper’ Islamic burrial rites is a serious, serious mistake for the Obama administration to have made. Perhaps serious enough to undo the good of having finally captured the little bugger.
Why?
It sends the wrong signal – the head of the only world Superpower is submitting to Sharia.
America is submitting to Sharia!
It sends theunmistakable message to the Islamists that they are succeeding – that we are, slowly but surely, accepting our role of Dhimmis!
That they only have to push a little longer, a little harder, and all of us will submit – because we have already started to…
Judging by Obama’s actions, they just might be right….
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 
May 3, 2011 at 19:32
On a good note, burial in the sea rather than in one territory will prevent a terrorist shrine from being made. Now, which country would want to have Bin Laden’s corpse buried in it, anyway?
Xanthippa says:
Rumour has it that it was offered to the Saudis – after all, he is blood relaed to the Saudi royal family – but that they didn’t want it. I don’t know how true this is, but it is persistent.
Now, the Saudis have perceived it to be an ideological problem to have tomb-shrines: they consider this to be a form of idolatry and that is forbidden in Islam. As a matter of course, some archeologists have been warning of Mohammed-era tombs are being destroyed there because pilgrims have been visiting them en route to Mecca.
So, it is entirely plausible that, had they been offered Osama’s corpse, they would have said ‘no, thank you’!
May 3, 2011 at 22:10
but osama was forbidden from saudi arabia and disowned by his saudi family.
Xanthippa says:
Yes, he had been excommunicated for a long time.
Which does not mean the US administration would not wish to cover their own butts (and kiss some Saud butts) by giving them first dibs on the body – even if only to let them control a part of the spin…in exchange for some ‘favour’, like, say officially support the US exytajudicial killing of Osama.
May 7, 2011 at 14:43
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