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Originally Posted by PackersFan
I agree, they should have hung his ass from the tallest tree on the White house lawn. He didn't honor 'Human Tradition' by taking down the WTC, so why did they give him his final honor? Its exactly what he wanted, he died as a martyr. They should have shown him NO honor. Now it shows young extremists that if they get caught and killed, they will still be buried in their tradition.
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Do that, and you perpetuate the image that radical Muslim extremists paint of the Great White Satan of the West. This is not the way to win over the hearts of fence-sitting youth in the middle east mentally debating whether to try to lead a good, decent life, or to take up the sword against America in Osama's Jihad.
While the man certainly deserved no respect, it was the right thing to afford him every ceremonial rite his culture bestows upon their dead. In these tumultuous times, it is a humungous olive branch to hold out.
If you dishonour and disgrace his body, and wind of it gets out to the middle east, you've just made it that much harder to stop the cycle of violence.