No One Wants To Bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

[Jim Lane]

90. Respect all religions, believe in none, that's my motto.

My freedom is threatened by Islamofascists (to use the term so popular with right-wingers) and by Christofascists (the perfectly analogous term that the wingnuts just can't see). I don't want any of these religious zealots disrespecting my beliefs -- IOW, they're free to proselytize, but I don't want any of them to be able to dictate what I or anyone else does.

To be consistent, I must extend to them the same respect that I demand. So, yes, Tsarnaev's religious beliefs do override some things. The right of free exercise of religion, although not absolute, can even sometimes override laws of general applicability (as when the granting of conscientious objector status enabled religious pacifists to escape conscription during the Vietnam War era).

Protecting someone's free exercise after the person's death adds a new complication, but it's moot here, where Tsarnaev's surviving family are also all Muslims.

I shouldn't need to add, but probably do need to add, a disclaimer: As an agnostic, I recognize that most Muslims aren't Islamofascists and most Christians aren't Christofascists.