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Many (many, many, many) people are unhappy that Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in Central Virginia. But Gov. Bob McDonnell told reporters there’s nothing he can do about it.

“That wouldn’t have been my choice, but it’s a cemetery, it’s a religious cemetery,” McDonnell said Monday, according to the Washington Post. “My understanding is we don’t regulate those and it’s really a matter of private property.”

After Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s death on April 19 in a shootout with police, a Massachusetts funeral home accepted his body but his family could not find a cemetery willing to bury it. Tsarnaev was finally buried in Doswell, Va. last week after a Richmond woman stepped in to help. After her involvement went public, Martha Mullen told the Associated Press, “I can’t pretend it’s not difficult to be reviled and maligned. But any time you can reach across the divide and work with people that are not like you, that’s what God calls us to do.”

The Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force, an activist group that has previously opposed the construction of a Muslim school in Northern Virginia, has called for the body to be removed. The group’s leader described the burial as “an awful sneak attack on the people of Virginia.” The organization said it is concerned the burial site will become a shrine for jihadists, a claim dismissed by the president of the company that manages the cemetery.

A recent poll conducted by the Post showed McDonnell enjoys a 64 percent approval rating, despite the investigation surrounding gifts the governor received from a big donor. McDonnell’s term ends this year.