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Tamerlan Tsarnaev is Buried, Time to Move On

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Fri May 10, 2013 at 03:48:28 PM EST
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (all tags)
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried in Richmond, Virginia. Get over it. The protests are nothing more than rank bigotry.

“He’s a Muslim. We don’t need that here,” Margaret Stevens, a 68-year-old-retiree, said.

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    Tamerlan Tsarnaev is Buried, Time to Move On | 22 comments (22 topical)

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    I thought his burial site (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by Militarytracy on Fri May 10, 2013 at 03:55:14 PM EST
    Was to remain secret?

    no, it's been released (none / 0) (#2)
    by Jeralyn on Fri May 10, 2013 at 04:00:31 PM EST
    and confirmed.

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    Who Released the Information? (5.00 / 1) (#4)
    by RickyJim on Fri May 10, 2013 at 04:15:24 PM EST
    Uncle Ruslan?  Or do we know the burial site due to the efforts of some snooping reporters?  In this case this knowledge doesn't do anybody any good.

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    No, the mosque and the woman (none / 0) (#6)
    by Jeralyn on Fri May 10, 2013 at 07:41:49 PM EST
    who put the deal together gave interviews. HuffPo had it this morning.

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    according to the richmond times dispatch, (none / 0) (#11)
    by cpinva on Sat May 11, 2013 at 08:29:09 AM EST
    the cemetery isn't actually in Richmond. it isn't even anywhere close to the city limits, but several miles north of Richmond. I guess they figured most people would recognize Richmond, but not the actual location.

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    but it's perfectly ok (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by cpinva on Fri May 10, 2013 at 04:12:59 PM EST
    for Robert e. lee, a traitor who was largely responsible for the deaths of over 600,000 americans, to be buried in va.

    oh wait, he was a white Christian, so that makes it better!

    And Hanoi Jane Fonda (1.00 / 4) (#20)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat May 11, 2013 at 03:17:32 PM EST
    is alive and well and never even been charged!

    And Blow'em Up Ayers is free on a technicality and teaching our children!

    Go figure!

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    Leave it to you (5.00 / 1) (#27)
    by sj on Sat May 11, 2013 at 11:44:07 PM EST
    to throw completely irrelevant stink bombs for no reason whatsoever. This kind of crap just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Icky.

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    Good points, Jimka (1.00 / 1) (#23)
    by Slayersrezo on Sat May 11, 2013 at 03:43:11 PM EST
    We should also mention Bernadene Dohrn:
    Wikipedia Entry

    Notice all the crap she got away with, basically just serving probation.

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    We should also mention (none / 0) (#28)
    by jondee on Mon May 13, 2013 at 12:37:36 PM EST
    3,000 dead through appalling incompetence, and a war built on lies, Bush-Cheney & Co.

    Or, for that matter, the I never saw a peasant village I wouldn't napalm pair, Nixon and Kissinger.

    And then there are all their still active and still cognitively-and-ethically impaired supporters..

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    Followed by the controversy re placement of (none / 0) (#5)
    by oculus on Fri May 10, 2013 at 06:07:59 PM EST
    statue of Arthur Ashe.

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    Technically true but it still causes me to (none / 0) (#15)
    by MKS on Sat May 11, 2013 at 01:04:42 PM EST
    wince....the love for Lee ran deep and true among Southernors....

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    Rank bigotry (1.00 / 1) (#7)
    by Abdul Abulbul Amir on Fri May 10, 2013 at 10:06:19 PM EST
    .

    "Rank bigotry" is an odd description for those expressing disdain for a mass murderer.

    .

    Did you read the quote? (5.00 / 4) (#8)
    by Yman on Fri May 10, 2013 at 10:11:07 PM EST
    "He's a Muslim. We don't need that here," Margaret Stevens, a 68-year-old-retiree, said.

    She wasn't "expressing disdain for a mass murderer".  She was expressing disdain for a Muslim.

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    OMG (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by Slayersrezo on Sat May 11, 2013 at 12:30:53 PM EST
    Yman, I agree with you.
    This was a bigoted statement against Muslims.
    I hold no particular respect for this dead terrorist and if the local populace wants to spit on his grave that's their right. But they shouldn't be bigots and people should be grown up enough to allow for a burial. I don't think there is an afterlife , but whether there is or is not this guy is beyond our Judgement now.

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    Did you read the quote? (1.00 / 1) (#17)
    by Abdul Abulbul Amir on Sat May 11, 2013 at 01:49:52 PM EST
    The protests are nothing more than rank bigotry.

    Emphasis added.  Tarring all those that show disdain for a mass murderer because of the mouthings of the odd bigot or two may be fun at best.

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    I did - and I agree with it (5.00 / 1) (#22)
    by Yman on Sat May 11, 2013 at 03:43:02 PM EST
    But you could be right.

    There might be a few non-bigots among the protesters.  Then again, ...

    ... maybe not.

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    It is obvious that (1.00 / 2) (#26)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat May 11, 2013 at 06:34:06 PM EST
    she didn't like the Muslim in question. But she said, in context:

    "He's a Muslim. We don't need that here," Margaret Stevens, a 68-year-old-retiree, said as she bought items at the market. "All that stuff started in Boston. It's just not right. They shouldn't have brought him. It didn't happen here."
    (Emphasis added)

    She probably doesn't care what any of us think, but if she had said "We don't need them here..." I could see the connection to Muslims. "...that..." turns it into a comment about the bombing.

    Does that make her a bigot??

    "a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion."

    Was she intolerant before the bombing? Is she intolerant now of all Muslims, or just the ones connected to the bombings in Boston and various other terrorist activities?

    I don't know. But the reaction to what she said is why I try very hard to use the term "Muslim terrorist" when referring to such activities.

    To make all of this back and forth about words really ironic is this:

    At the nearby Frog Level Market, reaction was mixed among shoppers who now face the prospect of seeing their community, which boasts of its connection to the famous racehorse, will now be known as the resting place for an alleged domestic terrorist.
    (Emphasis added.)

    Alleged??? Alleged?

    We know what he did. We know what he was. Yet the discussion is about what she meant.

    Once again political correctness runs a muck.

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    Hmm Abdul you are right at least partly (none / 0) (#18)
    by Slayersrezo on Sat May 11, 2013 at 02:08:06 PM EST
    Or Jeralyn wasn't very clear which protests she was referring to.
    The article she links to doesn't mention any protests at his actual grave site but instead some protests in other areas when it was found out he might be buried in those other places. Only one of the locals in Caroline makes an anti-muslim statement. Perhaps Jeralyn jumped the gun on this.

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    I was very clear (5.00 / 3) (#24)
    by Jeralyn on Sat May 11, 2013 at 04:50:17 PM EST
    since I've been writing about those protesting him being buried anywhere for days.

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    yes, that's abundantly clear (none / 0) (#9)
    by Jeralyn on Sat May 11, 2013 at 03:48:06 AM EST
    Her quote was as to Muslims.

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    off-topic comments deleted (none / 0) (#25)
    by Jeralyn on Sat May 11, 2013 at 04:51:11 PM EST
    The topic is the burial of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. If you want to discuss the civil war, please do it on an open thread.

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