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...recognize the state of Israel would be to condone an act of robbery. "All heavenly religions are unanimous in condemning robbery and stating that robbed objects should be returned to their rightful owners." Furthermore, Mohammed himself has said: "He who dies in defense of his property is a martyr; he who dies in defense of his honor is a martyr." When Mohammed and his followers were driven out of Mecca, the Ulema recalled, Allah ordered his Prophet: "Drive them from where they have driven you" and "Attack who attacked you in the same way." That, said the Ulema, is again...
...court* suspended him from service for five years, with loss of rank and privilege, and he resigned. (He died in 1936 at the age of 56.) The air force had lost a leader but found a prophet and a martyr, and in the next two decades Billy Mitchell was a major article of faith in the new cult of air power that justified its doctrines in World...
...weeks after the crime, in Money, the scene of the murder, an already-growing reaction was setting in against outside interference. A good many intelligent people here feel that the NAACP deliberately aggravated the local populace in order to create a propaganda martyr, on the assumption that if the two defendants, Milam and Bryant, were convicted, its crusade would suffer. This indictment may be untrue, but the NAACP could not have gotten better results, even if it had tried. The obvious injustice of its accusations against the state has made residents more convinced than ever that they are right...
Something of that feeling carries over into this English biography of Thomas a Becket, archbishop, martyr, and definitely a man who asked for it. Becket was the first famous victim in a struggle between church and state that culminated, four centuries later, in Henry VIII's breach with Rome. But historians are divided on Becket's role. To many he was a worldly opportunist who, somewhere along the way, underwent a remarkable spiritual conversion. Others saw him as a martyr only to ambition, who lost out in a struggle for power with his King. Britain's Alfred...
...machinery of the "All-People's Party." Kennedy even works up a milling, militant "Free Angel Chavez Rally" in Madison Square Garden. He packs the place with hard-core Communists, hot-eyed hangers-on, droning speechmakers and "entertainers." Kennedy collects his defense funds, and the party has its martyr, as well as its unsuspecting suckers. Next step: the conviction of Angel Chavez as a springboard for anticapitalist propaganda...