Buh-Bye, Bin Laden: Of Burial and Remembrance

As United States President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) deals with the aftermath of the death of the world’s most famous Islamic Terrorist, he and his administration are trying to decide whether of not to release a photograph of Osama bin Laden, taken after our American Special Forces team assisted him in achieving room temperature.

The White House describes the photograph of a dead Osama bin Laden as “gruesome” and worries “it could be inflammatory” if released.

According to White House press secretary Jay Carney, the White House is trying to decide whether to make the photo public. Obama and his administration are concerned about the “sensitivity” of doing so. Carney admitted at yesterday’s daily press briefing that there is a discussion internally about the best to handle it but “there is not some roiling debate here about this.”

Monday, John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser and well-known Muslim sympathizer, speaking on National Public Radio, said:

What we don’t want to do is to release anything that might be either misunderstood or that would cause other problems.

It’s way too late for that, Skippy.

In the preceding video, an Imam from the al-Asqa Mosque in Jersalem proclaims:

The western dogs are rejoicing after killing one of our Islamic lions. From Al-Aqsa Mosque, where the future caliphate will originate with the help of God, we say to them – the dogs will not rejoice too much for killing the lions. The dogs will remain dogs and the lion, even if he is dead, will remain a lion.

Speaking to Obama, he then says:

You personally instructed to kill Muslims. You should know that soon you’ll hang together with Bush Junior.

We are a nation of billions, a good nation. We’ll teach you about politics and military ways very soon, with god’s help.

Evidently, the Imam is not impressed by the full Muslim funeral that our forces gave bin Laden, just before they consigned him to Davy Jones’ Locker.

Per dailymail.uk.co:

Some Muslims yesterday disputed the U.S. claim that Bin Laden’s burial at sea was in accordance with Islamic tradition.

A U.S. government spokesman said it had been decided it would be difficult to find a country prepared to accept the body and then bury it within 24 hours of death as dictated by Islamic custom. But he said it had been instead respectfully interred in the waves of the Indian Ocean off Pakistan from the U.S. aircraft carrier the Carl Vinson.

Muslim scholars said that while sea burials have long been an occasional accepted necessity, there was no such need in this case.

The head of Egypt’s prestigious seat of Sunni Muslim learning, al-Azhar, said the sea burial ‘contradicts all the religious values and human norms’.

…Muslim clerics are predicting revenge attacks against American targets because of the way the government decided to dispose of the leader’s body.

A wide range of Islamic scholars interpreted it as a humiliating disregard for the standard Muslim practice of placing the body in a grave with the head pointed toward the holy city of Mecca.

Sea burials can be allowed, they said, but only in special cases where the death occurred aboard a ship far from the coast.

Mohammed al-Qubaisi, Dubai’s grand mufti, said about Bin Laden’s burial:

They can say they buried him at sea, but they cannot say they did it according to Islam. If the family does not want him, it’s really simple in Islam: You dig up a grave anywhere, even on a remote island, you say the prayers and that’s it.

Sea burials are permissible for Muslims in extraordinary circumstances. This is not one of them.

Other scholars said that even those who are criminals and murderers are given the Islamic rite of burial.

As the Muslim World reacts to the outcome of the mission known by the code name Geronimo, Obama prepares for a photo op…err…presidential excursion to Ground Zero this Thursday…alone.

Former President George W. Bush yesterday turned down President Barack Obama’s invitation to join him at ground zero, citing his desire to avoid the spotlight.

Bush spokesman David Sherzer told politico.com in an email Tuesday night:

President Bush appreciated the invite, but has chosen in his post-presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight.He continues to celebrate with all Americans this important victory in the war on terror.

Uh huh. It’s a little strange that the same guy who blasted Booosh! for going to Iraq, instead of going after bin Laden, now wants him to appear arm-in-arm with him at Ground Zero.

Obama has not been to Ground Zero, the site of the largest Islamic Terrorist ever on American soil, since 2008. The past two years, he has sent Vice-President Joe Biden to the memorial Services there on September 11th, instead of making the trip himself.

He is supposed to meet with family members of some of the victims, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and other local officials.

I’m pretty sure that Obama, whose announcement of the killing of bin Laden last Sunday night reminded of the old song, The Night has a Thousand Eyes (I’s),will be taking a victory lap this Thursday in New York City.

What I’m afraid of is, that, perhaps, he’ll also use the opportunity to reach out, as the son of a Muslim, to the Muslim World, and turn this moment of American justice into a second University of Cairo Speech.

And that would be inappropriate.




7 thoughts on “Buh-Bye, Bin Laden: Of Burial and Remembrance

  1. ladyingray's avatar ladyingray

    W is class. I didn’t agree with everything he did as POYUS, but was crystal clear that he loved the USA and keeping us safe was his #1 priority.

    obaka, not so much…

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  2. Gohawgs's avatar Gohawgs

    A possible solution to the pic or not to pic quandry facing the obamanation — IF there is video footage of the SEALS encounter with UBL (likely), then show the reported initial shot to the torso and then show a pic of the pistol/carbine next to UBL’s head just before the trigger is pulled. That way, the “gruesome” after action photos of what’s left of UBL’s head won’t make anyone queasy or enrage “Rage Boy” anymore than is normal for him…

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