According to published reports, one of Osama bin Laden's sons has publicly and bitterly complained that the decision made by the United States to bury his father's body at sea is demeaning to the bin Laden family. Pardon me if I don't share his sense of outrage!
Grief is an appropriate emotion at the time of a parent's death, even a parent as demented and evil as Osama was, and you can certainly understand why a son might lash out in his time of sorrow over a perceived slight to his grieving family. Death has a way of stirring that emotion in folks.
What I want to know is this: Why wasn't this son of bin Laden publicly complaining when his deranged father demeaned the bin Laden family reputation by killing thousands of innocent men, woman and children on September 11th, 2001? Where was the public display of bitterness in the decade afterward, as lieutenants of bin Laden continued their killing of thousands of innocent civilians in daily bombings across the Middle East? The vast majority of those dead followed bin Laden's own Islamic tradition. Surely, the grief of those families meant something to this now-grieving son. Or, maybe it didn't!
Maybe the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. Maybe this son of bin Laden was so wrapped up in his own sense of importance that he never took the time to consider the grief and the horrendous suffering his father was unleashing against the rest of the world. Maybe this son of bin Laden thought the rest of the world deserved the misery, and maybe, just maybe, this son was sharing in his father's jubilation as the twin towers in New York City fell into a heap of rubble and death. We may never know for sure. One thing I do know is this - bin Laden junior finally knows what the rest of us felt. And it hurts!
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