Word: martyrize
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...holy city of Mecca. Al-Banna's family says that as far as they knew, Ra'ed was in Saudi Arabia working at a new job. But the voice on the other end sounded Iraqi, Ahmed says. "Congratulations," the caller told him. "Your brother has fallen a martyr...
...time of the Hilla bombing on Feb. 28--though the family's accounts of the precise date are unclear. Besides being particularly affectionate, Ra'ed said nothing to indicate his life was about to end. On March 3, Ahmed received the call telling him Ra'ed was a martyr. The caller read Ra'ed's last will and testament. Four days later, there was another call, to Mansour, who says he was invited, "Allah willing," to visit Ra'ed's tomb near the Iraqi city of Mosul. The Banna clan ran an obituary in the newspaper Ad Dustour announcing that...
...after a victorious war of secession against Russia in the mid-1990s, allowed thugs and religious fanatics to take over Chechnya. Radical guerrillas scorned him for his desire to negotiate with the Russians. Many ordinary Chechens reviled him as the cause of their misery. Now, Maskhadov has become a martyr for Islam and his beleaguered nation, and his death could lead to a further escalation of the brutal war with Russia. No one in Chechnya dared openly mark Maskhadov's death; at least eight of his relatives disappeared last December, according to local and national press reports, in an apparent...
...Similarly, the Palestinian militants of Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade are an integral part of Palestinian society, and the more democratic the politics of the Palestinian Authority become, the greater their representation in it will be. Mahmoud Abbas won January's presidential election precisely because he had the backing of the al-Aqsa Martyr?s Brigade, which persuaded his stronger rival, the imprisoned Marwan Barghouti, to drop out. (The most widely respected Palestinian polling organization, which called the election result to within a percentage point, concluded that had Barghouti run, the imprisoned militant would have beaten Abbas...
...Caravaggio, made under the shadow of his worsening predicaments. Yet in Naples, he produced astonishing canvases like his Crucifixion of St. Andrew. The saint is shown at the moment of his miraculous death, when soldiers attempting to take him down from the cross alive (which would deny him the martyr's death he prayed for) were thwarted when God froze them in a blinding flash of light. Here Caravaggio's sharp illumination is not just a pictorial device; it's God's own light, thrown onto the scene. The mocking figure at lower right is the Roman proconsul who ordered...