Boston bomber delivers disappointing apology

Some forgave him, but some cannot.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gave his apology in court to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.

“In the name of Allah, the exalted and glorious, the most gracious, the most merciful, Allah, among the most beautiful names. Any act that does not begin in the name of God is separate from goodness,” Tsarnaev said.

So he stood humble, before God. And right away, you have to wonder: Where was that humility the day Tsarnaev set that bomb?

He went on.

“The Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, said if you have not thanked the people, you have not thanked God. So I would like to first thank my attorneys, they have done much good for me. They made my life the last two years very easy,” Tsarnaev said.

Lynn Julian, who was near the first bomb, couldn’t believe what she was hearing.

“A sort of Oscar-type speech thanking the judge and thanking his legal team and his family for testifying, and ‘making my life easy for the past two years.’ Well, our lives have been anything but easy,” she said.

He did deliver an apology, on behalf of himself and his brother.

“The Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, said that if you are not merciful to Allah’s creation, Allah will not be merciful to you, so I’d like to now apologize to the victims, to the survivors,” Tsarnaev said.

But it was what he didn’t say that bothered U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz.

“He didn’t renounce terrorism, he didn’t renounce violent extremism,” Ortiz said.

No. And for all the references to Allah, Tsarnaev also didn’t explain the one thing all of us desperately want to understand: How he could apologize in the name of the same God, who he was supposedly serving, when he deliberately walked into a group of children and set down that backpack.