The administration was apparently anxious to note that “Sheik” Osama bin Laden was buried at sea, according to “Islamic practices.”
Was this a good thing? Over at Pajamas Media yesterday, I made the case against it.
People who tell us that they are moderate Muslims tell us that Islam has nothing to do with violence, or establishing a Caliphate, or subjugating women, or Jews, or infidels in general. They tell us that they are a “Religion of Peace”™.
Furthermore, they tell us that Osama bin Laden, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, have nothing to do with this religion, and (apparently) that they are apostates of the religion.
Yet, our government went out of its way to provide a burial of the monster who murdered thousands at the World Trade Center in the “Islamic tradition,” washing him and swathing him in white robes, before feeding him to the fishes. As I point out there, I think that we’d have been a lot better off feeding him to pigs, rather than fishes, to make the point that we agree with all of the (mendacious) groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) who proclaim that Islam is peaceful while funding other groups who provide aid and succor to the terrorists who make war on us.
We have a problem in this war. We invite groups like CAIR to the White House, in the false hope that this will actually result in getting violent Muslims on our side (and decline to prosecute their actions against us). We constantly bend over backward to accommodate the concerns about discrimination about Muslims in the wake of 911, now almost a decade ago, despite the fact that America is a remarkably tolerant country (even after having six-year-olds groped in the airport security lines) and that Jews remain the much larger target of hate in this country. As I note at the end of the piece:
We may not wish to be at war, but when others make war on us, we are, and we will not win if we don’t act like it.
