Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Tarnishing the Family Name

One of Osama bin Laden's sons has a complaint:

A statement purporting to come from a son of Osama bin Laden denounced the al Qaeda leader's killing as "criminal" and said his burial at sea had humiliated the family, an online monitoring service said. ...

The letter said, in part: "We hold the American President (Barack) Obama legally responsible to clarify the fate of our father, Osama bin Laden, for it is unacceptable, humanely and religiously, to dispose of a person with such importance and status among his people, by throwing his body into the sea in that way, which demeans and humiliates his family and his supporters and which challenges religious provisions and feelings of hundreds of millions of Muslims."

Seriously, Omar? That's the source of your family image problem you've identified? We tarnished the family name and Moslems were demeaned and humiliated by the burial at sea rather than being caused by the murdering bastard's swath of destruction through the Western and Moslem world the last couple decades? Really?

Man, this really is going to be a long war.