Martha Mullen is under fire for her role in getting bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev laid to rest in an Islamic cemetery in Virginia. Good on her. She, and those who helped her, did the right thing. Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s actions were evil, but keeping him from being buried doesn’t affect him. It just hurts his family, who are innocent of any crime other than being related.
The anger of the bombings is perfectly understandable. I share it. Bombings like this are a tragedy no matter where they occur, no matter who the target is. But while Tsarnaev and his brother might have been the ones who planted the bomb, they were weapons, used by those who sang lies into their ears about the evils of America and the nobility of martyrdom. Our anger should be focused, at least in part, on those individuals, whoever they are, not on a good-hearted woman in Virgina, who wanted to do nothing more than find a resting place for Tsarnaev and help the healing process start.
It’s time to move on, and let this matter rest.
Somehow, I suspect that won’t happen, though, since CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC all have to find something to talk about other than the important problems we face like Climate Change, the damage the Sequester is doing to our economy, and the continued intransigence of the Republicans in Congress.

