Muslims Outraged After Boston Bomber Buried In Confederate Cemetery
RICHMOND, VA — America's leading Islamic organization took to the airwaves today in outrage after a local news station confirmed rumors that the deceased Boston Marathon bomber had accidentally been interred in a Confederate military cemetery.
WCSA Channel 61 broke the story on Monday that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had not been interred in the Al-Barzakh cemetery in Doswell — originally reported by most news outlets last week — but was accidentally buried in the Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery just down the road.
The reaction by Islamic groups was swift.
"Through what we can only describe as a gross error of judgement, Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried among a group of traitors," Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America, complained to reporters.
"While Mr. Tsarnaev may have done a lot of terrible things in his life, owning slaves was not one of them. And because of this he will now be forced to share the same ground with men who killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.…
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