A Burial Virginians Should Respect

"Tamerlan, 26, and his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, are believed to have set off two bombs near the finish line at the Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three people and injuring 264.

After Tamerlan died in a shootout with police on April 19, disposition of the ethnic Chechen's remains became controversial with local cemeteries refusing to accept them, while some family members sought to have them transported overseas. Massachusetts officials, including the city manager in Tsarnaev's hometown of Cambridge and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, called for the body to be buried outside their communities.

On Friday, an official death certificate released by Menino's office showed that Tsarnaev had been buried in a Muslim cemetery in Doswell, Virginia, near Richmond."  http://news.yahoo.com/virginia-deserved-notice-bomb-suspect-burial-funeral-director-212654413.html

And Virginia and Virginians have objected.

Why? A technicality? Religious intolerance? Moral indignation? A technicality in the transfer of the remains: certainly merely correct the forms. Religious intolerance: certainly Virginia, the first guarantor of religious freedom, would not object. Moral indignation: certainly Virginians have laid to rest the remains of those condemned for more heinous acts. What doctrine, philosophy, morality, false piety would deny the human respect for a dead man in a dignified burial. We bury dogs and cats in "pet" cemeteries, do the remains of any man deserve less.