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Because it's practical.

Because by not giving him a proper burial, it might cause uprisings amongst his admirers, further endangering the lives of our people in Afghanistan.

Because the man has so much blood on his hands, you don't want him to score points from beyond the grave.

Because a proper Muslim burial will not stop him from going to hell.

I hear he was wrapped in bacon.

and yet, he was extended a “religious funeral?” Who gave the order for such nonsense?

LOL, the Democraps can't even kill Osama right.

Why pay homage to a false "religion" that encourages its adherents to murder innocent people en masse`?

Because there will be no grave site. If there were a grave site it would become a rallying point for terrorism around the world. It's a brilliant decision. I didn't realize that anyone in the Obama admin was that smart.

bob2356 says

I didn’t realize that anyone in the Obama admin was that smart.

Who knows who's idea it was, but my bet is it was the top military command that made the recommendation.

I doubt they did, probably simply a PR statement to quite the masses.

RayAmerica says

Why pay homage to a false “religion” that encourages its adherents to murder innocent people en masse`?

You've confused his religion and the organization he started. Please be careful. If you are religious, the same is probably often done to your religion and you probably don't like it. Every religion can be associated with a mass murderer.

You know the saying. "Don't let one bad apple..."

Ray, you don't need to engage in redundancy by putting false in front of religion. Religion is by definition false.

sfbubblebuyer says

Religion is by definition false.

What exactly do you mean by that? I have an answer for this, but would be curious to hear yours.

Funeral according to Islamic Law within 24 hours at sea = No complaints from the Muslim world about disrespect + No grave site = No monuments to terror or furor over mistreatment of the remains = Fewer future terrorists inspired by visiting the momument/gravesite or being inspired by rage over mistreatment of the remains = Big coup for containing retaliation

Win, win, win, win, win, win! :)

By the way Muslims follow the same burial Laws as Orthodox Jews do. You bury the dead within 24 hours. The burial at sea according to Islamic Law was sheer genius.

jvolstad says

I hear he was wrapped in bacon.

Mmmm... bacon...

Ray, I meant exactly what I said. Prefacing religion with false is redundant, no matter what religion you care to apply it to. When people stick that 'false' tag in front of a religion, they're implying that the religion so labeled is somehow less true than some other religion, which is patently ridiculous. Religions are based on belief, which is non-observable and non-verifiable, thus have no value on a 'true' or 'false' scale. If you must assign a value on such a scale to one religion, all religious would have the same value as they are all equally verifiable, making the label redundant.

I'm quite certain that under the variant of Southern Baptist I grew up under, about 99% of other religious people worship "falsely" and must burn in hell. SFbubblebuyer is right on target here.

AFAIK our military honors religious burial requirements unless there is some operational reason not to. We even reburied the bodies of those Soviet sailors extracted from the wreckage in Project Azorian. What did you want to pee on the body or something Ray?

Troy says

LOL, the Democraps can’t even kill Osama right.

You'll get no argument here.