We are decent people in the USA. There won't be any backlash. The cemetery that will bury those killed by officers in the line of duty will have hero status. We don't begrudge the soul of it's final disposition determined by god. Burying Tamerlan and providing a place for the family to grieve is the right thing to do. We are a country that honors ourselves with decency.
The cemetery can be one where the Boston and Watertown dead are not buried if that is possible, but, there is some place in the northeast where this can be done. Please.
...Funeral director Peter Stefan (click here) has asked cemeteries in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts, but each of the cemeteries have passed on burying the older Tsarnaev brother, who was killed during a shootout with police.
Stefan says that if no cemeteries agree, then he would “have to go to the federal government and then we have to ask them for assistance.” The Tsarnaev family has requested a Muslim burial along with a grave near their home in Massachusetts.
Protests have taken place outside of the Dyer-Lake Funeral Home in Worcester, Mass., where the body of Tsarnaev is being kept. Police have posted security outside.
“Everybody has a right to be buried. I can’t separate the sins from the sinner,” Stefan, the funeral director, said....
