Bump for a good article.
That whole “buried at sea” thing smells fishy.
(No, really.)
“Second, before my head explodes in anger, what the heck are we doing handling the body “according to Islamic tradition”?! This is outrageous! His body should not be treated any better than those Muslim barbarians treated the bodies of 3000 Americans on September 11, 2001!”
It’s not simply that he should be treated differently from those he and his minions butchered, it’s our deference to his phony religion! What does such treatment say about our own national “tradition,” which happens to be Christian? I just don’t get it, and I don’t get it on any number of levels: Is it our intention to honor OBL with the burial he & his ilk require? Are we trying to assure that OBL’s virgins are waiting? Are we publicly acknowledging that Islam is an acceptable, rational life-style choice (like homosexuality)?
Mark Steyn recently cited British Gen. Napier’s reaction to the Indian custom of suttee: “You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”
Where are our customs today? If we’re “exceptional” and confident in our greatness as indeed were the Brits throughout their empire, where is the evidence? Or is succumbing to every fluke/false/baseless behavior what now qualifies as “exceptional”?
Great article written there! Worth the read and reminds us why we are fighting....a good heads up. Thank you.