US officials and the establishment media need to make up their mind. On the one hand we are told that the Islamic State, and jihad terrorism in general, has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism, that terrorists have “hijacked” Islam, as Karl Rove repeated on Fox yesterday, and then we see the world’s biggest terror leader being given Islamic burial rites, just like the last terror leader. So which is it, State Department? Which is it, Reuters? Are those who recognize that Islamic jihad terrorists are working from texts of the Qur’an and Sunnah racist, bigoted “Islamophobes,” or is Islamic terrorism actually Islamic? You can’t have it both ways, but you probably will anyway.
“Baghdadi given burial at sea, afforded religious rites: U.S. officials,” by Phil Stewart, Reuters, October 28, 2019:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has given the remains of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi a burial at sea and afforded him religious rites according to Islamic custom after he was killed in a U.S. commando raid in Syria on Saturday, three officials told Reuters….
The U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not disclose where the ritual was performed or how long it lasted. Two officials said they believed his remains were delivered to the sea from an aircraft.
U.S. Army General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Pentagon news briefing on Monday that the U.S. military disposed of Baghdadi’s remains “appropriately, in accordance with our (standard operating procedures) and in accordance with the law of armed conflict.”…
In the case of bin Laden, his body was transported to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. It was washed before being covered in a white sheet, and religious remarks translated into Arabic were read over bin Laden’s corpse….