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Originally Posted by HeartsOfFire
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.
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I hear ya, but honestly, there is no 'Right" way to dispose of his remains. There will still be an Al-Quada, there will still be Muslim extremists who hate the the west, there will still be war, and there will still be terrorist attacks. I grant you that it may increase the violence, but just because he is dead, doesn't mean that the violence stops.
Many will carry on their Holy War in his name now that he is dead, just as they did when he was alive.
They (Muslim extremists) never show the our soldiers, journalists or tourists that they kill any burial rights. They never show fear of us retaliating against them, so why should we show fear?
They didn't show any concern for our innocent civilians on 9/11, or suicide bombings, so why should we extend them the courtesy of not bombing zones that harbor terrorists for the fear of killing their innocent people.
Throwing him into the sea was the right choice, but there was no reason to broadcast to the whole word that you did it in the Muslim tradition.
We have to stand up for ourselves, our people, and our beliefs.