Curiouser and curiouser

Russian-spy-turned-walking-biohazard Alexander Litvinenko is still dead. But now he's Muslim. Actually, he turned Muslim a week before he died, but only those of us in the vast right-wing conspiracy knew about it. Now that his memorial service has been held in the target-rich environment of London's Regent's Park Mosque, and Chechen Islamists have attended his funeral, the mainstream media have pulled their heads out of the sand and noticed.

LONDON - After a Muslim prayer service, ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko was laid to rest Thursday in a rain-swept funeral at London's Highgate Cemetery attended by a Russian tycoon, a Chechen rebel leader and other exiled Kremlin critics.

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Litvinenko, who criticized Putin's policies in Chechnya, reportedly had converted to Islam before his death, and some of the mourners were dressed in traditional Muslim robes. They left red flowers and an orange and yellow wreath at the stone gate of the famous cemetery where communist revolutionary Karl Marx is buried.

Earlier Thursday, Zakayev and Litvinenko's father, Walter, joined hundreds of Muslims who had gathered at London's Regent's Park Mosque for regular daily prayer to attend a memorial service, where the imam recited a funeral prayer.

"The imam said a special passage for him from the Quran," said Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, head of Britain's Muslim parliament.

"Britain's Muslim parliament"? Is the AP writer channelling us information from the future, or is there some kind of shadow government operating out of London now?

Why can't we have a good old cold-war-style, spy-vs.-spy dust-up without Islam getting involved? You can't swing a cat without hitting the Clash of Civilizations these days. Problem is, that's exactly the way the Islamists want it. "We're here! We're backwards, misogynistic supremacists! Get used to it!"