Word: martyrdoms
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...above all, Tiger leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran's real genius was to build a culture of sacrifice and martyrdom around his guerrilla force, with himself as demi-god leader - an almost exact forerunner of jihadi terrorism. In July 2002 TIME spent a few days with a female Tamil Tiger suicide squad at their base in northern Sri Lanka, and got a firsthand understanding of how he has been so successful...
...memory of those lost in this battle. One victim?s mother said she hoped he would not get the death penalty, to "demonstrate that we are a nation of mercy." And for those still looking for vengeance as well as justice, it is worth asking: If Moussaoui dreamed of martyrdom in a suicide attack, isn?t death at the hand of the U.S. government giving him, and all who would follow his footsteps, exactly what they want...
...have difficulty understanding the mentality of Iran's newest rulers. Then again, we don't understand the mentality of the men who flew into the World Trade Center or the mobs in Damascus and Tehran who chant "Death to America"--and Denmark(!)--and embrace the glory and romance of martyrdom...
...Night appeared in France with an introduction by [French novelist Fran?ois] Mauriac. The little book set the Wiesel style: austere, tense phrases articulating the unspeakable?the murder and torture of the innocent, the martyrdom of faith itself as a child watches the hanging of another child: 'Where is God? Where is he? ... And I heard a voice within me answer: Where is he? Here he is?he is hanging here on this gallows.' Some 20 American publishers rejected Night. 'The Holocaust was not something people wanted to know about in those days,' the author remembers. 'The diary of Anne Frank...
...Muslims today - and instead followed a series of 12 imams who were direct descendants of Muhammad. The schism originated as a violent power struggle, with both Ali and Hussein murdered by rivals. The latter, killed at the battle of Karbala in Iraq, came to symbolize the cult of martyrdom in the Shiite tradition, with followers still today flagellating themselves during the annual Ashura festival for their failure to rally to Hussein and prevent his death...