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...unique one. I was under a special premonition of fear and portent. We had decided to organize a march to protest the entrance of the criminal [Ariel] Sharon to al-Aqsa Mosque. After dawn, I started reading the Koran. The sun's rays were weaving a special dress of martyrdom. The sun's told us, "You have a date with martyrdom." The Muslim believes in fate. God decides death and life. I read the verses that deal with martyrdom. My heart was brimful with a special feeling. It is very great to fall a martyr. The martyr has a high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diaries of Hope and Hate: Five Days in the Middle East | 10/22/2000 | See Source »

...among them plenty of opportunity to subvert it. In 1994, Hebron settler Baruch Goldstein tried to do just that by massacring 29 Palestinians in a religious shrine before being beaten to death, and his action is still celebrated annually by sections of the settler community as an act of martyrdom - even though the Israeli army earlier this year bulldozed a shrine to the killer. The presence of the settlers also gives Palestinian militants an easy target for their own efforts to rekindle violence. Those on either side who may be looking to provoke confrontation don't have to look very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nablus Firefight Exposes a Flaw in Peace Efforts | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

...idea that parents must suffer for the children is an outdated model of martyrdom. It creates victims in two generations at once." MICHAEL SENN Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 16, 2000 | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...Martyrdom is hard to come across in a free society: one might find lots of lawyers, but not that many martyrs. Ken Saro-Wiwa, a prominent Nigerian author, struggled against an abusive system of laws and paid with his life for his resistance. He recognized that the presence of the Royal Dutch/Shell Conglomerate in his homeland, the Ogoni province of Nigeria, was leaving his people economically strangulated and politically marginalized...

Author: By Rohan R. Gulrajani, | Title: Toward Global Justice | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...year since Columbine has been one of ferment among youthful Evangelicals. Shaken yet inspired by what they see as the martyrdom of Christian students--and encouraged by a decade-old Supreme Court decision affirming student-led, after-school Christian clubs--they have shown a new assertiveness. The movement's political arm, meanwhile, insists that reinstatement of adult-led class prayer is the best way to prevent new carnage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day God Took Over | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

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