Word: martyrdoms
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...mellowness; Sufism, the most tolerant brand of Islam, flourishes in the numerous shrines. So it is jarring to see the invasion of graffiti along Sind's national highway, which cuts through vast fields of cotton, wheat and sugarcane, exhorting Muslims to kill Hindus and Westerners. VICTORY OR MARTYRDOM reads a sign by Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, one of the most influential Kashmir militant outfits. DEATH TO THE INFIDELS reads another. Attiya laughs. "Their infidels include all of us," she says, gesturing to her husband and young daughters. The slogans, which started appearing a year or two ago, creep up almost...
...Pakistan has more than its share of Islamic militants. The country's ongoing support of Muslim rebels in Indian Kashmir has fanned the flames of militancy in every town and village. In this struggle, martyrdom has lately become a horrifying tactic; a Muslim Kashmiri youth in April last year blew himself up outside Indian army headquarters in Srinagar. Other militants staged an unsuccessful suicidal siege of the Red Fort in New Delhi. One Pakistani military official said he wouldn't be surprised if U.S. authorities discover that Pakistani nationals were involved in some phase of the Washington and New York...
...terrorist activity. Salim was among them. Two weeks ago, he was in the mourning tent for Salah Darwazeh, a Hamas activist killed by an Israeli missile. Salim watched as his colleague in the Hamas leadership, Sheik Jamal Mansour, addressed the mourners. "This week you are seeing images of the martyrdom of Darwazeh!" the sheik yelled into the microphone. "Next week you might see my martyrdom." The only Hamas leader in the West Bank with more influence than Salim, Mansour died at his side in the helicopter attack...
Pearl Harbor was, among other things, the first mass martyrdom of what we've come to know as the Greatest Generation: 2,403 people died there--with awful suddenness. The first thing to understand is that this was just a drop in the cauldron that was World War II, which, globally, cost at least 50 million lives. We Americans lost more men in our victories--more than 6,000 at Iwo Jima, for example, 12,000 at Okinawa--than we did in that defeat. This is one of the many things you won't learn from the blockbuster movie...
...Bowing, for now, to international pressure Still, the Sharon government is all too aware that air strikes are an ineffective weapon against suicide bombers sent by Islamist groups who have always opposed the peace process and who celebrate martyrdom. So while Israel has reportedly drawn up a list of targets for even heavier air strikes if it is unsatisfied by Arafat's cease-fire efforts, under present circumstances the Jewish State's best hope of stemming the tide of suicide bombings remains Arafat's own security apparatus. Israel has targeted those forces in retaliation for bombings authored by his Islamist...