The White House decided, wisely, that a grave for Osama bin Laden would quickly become a martyr’s shrine.

So it ordered the terrorist’s body deposited in the North Arabian Sea.

So far, so good.

But that didn’t quite sit well with some Muslim scholars. Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayeb, grand sheik of al-Azhar in Cairo, called the sea burial a violation of sharia law.

Omar Bakri Mohammed, a radical Lebanese cleric, charged that it was done “to humiliate Muslims.”

Abdul-Sattar al-Janabi, of Baghdad’s Abu Hanifa mosque, said: “What was done . . . is forbidden by Islam and might provoke some Muslims.”

Goodness only knows what would happen if radical Muslims were provoked.

The fact is the corporal remains of Osama bin Laden were treated far more respectfully than those of more than 1,100 of his victims — those incinerated at the World Trade Center on 9/11, who left no remains whatsoever.

Nearly 10 years later, their loved ones have nothing tangible to properly mourn — no grave, no finality at all.

Bin Laden launched a violent attack on the United States — and even though it took most of a decade to settle accounts, he got exactly what he deserved.

Actually, the North Arabian Sea is too good for him.