2007-Apr-07
What is a Martyr?

Two differing cultural definitions...


(1) How most people in the World define a Martyr...
A martyr is someone who   is   murdered, killed, for their beliefs. [ example cited on this page]


(2) How devout MUSLIMS define a Martyr...
A martyr is someone who deliberately sets out   to kill   both themselves, and the greatest number of non-believers possible.
.....For the purpose of honouring Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. [ example cited on this page]


Perhaps you don't accept this 2nd definition as an accurate,    ....'characterisation' ?

Yet this statement, made by a muslim 'scholar', seems to endorse that exact characterisation...
"...the death of those who are killed for the cause of God gives more impetus to the cause,
which continues to thrive on their blood."
....the words of Islamism's most influential thinker, and advocate, Sayyid Qutb

...in the quote above, 'the cause of God' refers to the Jihad, forcefully, bringing ISLAM to all the people of this world.

Foul, foul, murder is done by devout muslims in their [perverse, so-called] 'martyrdom'...

Read this news report about muslim convert, Yvonne Ridley,  "....who [reportedly] considers the architect of the Beslan school massacre to be a martyr,"
and... this news report....Use children as troops, says muslim cleric
and... this news report...."...honor and pride can only come from jihad and martyrdom."



Dictionary definition:
martyr
· n.
1 a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs.
2 a person who displays or exaggerates their suffering or discomfort in order to obtain sympathy or admiration.
· v. (usu. be martyred) kill as a martyr; make a martyr of.
– DERIVATIVES martyrdom n. martyrization (also martyrisation) n. martyrize (also martyrise) v.
– ORIGIN OE martir, via eccles. L. from Gk martur ‘witness’ (in Christian use, ‘martyr’).







[link]
ISLAM - is a death cult.

Example 1

14 May 2008
Bombing at Iraq funeral kills 20
At least 20 people have been killed and 35 others wounded in a suicide bombing at a Sunni funeral west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say.
The bomber detonated his explosive belt in front of the mourners during an vigil in the village of Abu Minasir.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7401634.stm

And, yes, these ['muslim'] victims [above] are declared to be 'non-muslims', for the purposes of the ISLAMIC 'terms of engagement', in the Jihad against 'unbelievers'.


Example 2
The mainstream media uses the headline, in the following story, "Female 'suicide' bombers...."     ???

"Two Down's syndrome women in Iraq, duped
and used as 'proxy' 'suicide bombers' by insurgents - in new atrocity.", would be more accurate.

ATTENTION, ATTENTION - this example, is the highest ideal of 'martyrdom', that muslim 'warriors' can achieve.

February 1, 2008
Iraqi security: Female suicide bombers were mentally disabled; bombs detonated remotely
An update on this story. "Female suicide bombers kill dozens in Baghdad markets," from CNN:
    BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Female suicide bombers blew themselves up Friday at two markets in Baghdad, killing at least 64 people and wounding more than 100, authorities said.
    [...]
    In both bombings, the attackers were wearing suicide vests, according to Qasim Atta, a spokesman for the Baghdad security plan.
    Atta told state TV that both women were mentally disabled and their explosives were remotely detonated.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019781.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7223769.stm

Al Qaeda use two Down's syndrome women to blow up 99 people in Baghdad markets
3rd February 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=511678

In the story above, many of those who died were children.

see also...
Child Sacrifice    ...made to the God of ISLAM.

and...

"....if children are killed, the fault lies with..."  ....non-muslims, of course.



and...
ISLAM, and muslims, declare...

"We love death.
The US loves life.
That is the difference between us two."

Osama bin Laden, November 2001
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=%22We+love+death.+The+US+loves+life%22+laden&btnG=Search&meta=

and....

"The Jews love life,
.....they love life and we love death."

Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=%22We+have+discovered+how+to+hit+the+Jews+where+they+are+the+most+vulnerable%22+Nasrallah&btnG=Search&meta=

and....

"We're talking about people [muslims] who like to die,
the way, you
[unbelievers]
like to live."
Abu Izzadeen - UK cleric, July, 2006
http://prodosphere.com/detail.php?id=41294
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Izzadeen

More on these 'affirmations' here,

".....On the one hand, Israeli culture values life in all its aspects, including the sanctity of the life of others. Their soldiers take risks to spare civilians on the other side, unprecedented in the history of warfare. Aware of Israeli inhibitions, Jihadi groups use their own people as human shields in fighting the Israelis.
Over the last few years, these Jihadi groups have developed a full-blown death cult in which they raise their children to want to die killing others."

"We have discovered how to hit the Jews where they are the most vulnerable. The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win, because they love life and we love death."

Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah

"Our blood is cheap compared with the cause which has brought us together and which at moments separated us, but shortly we will meet again in heaven…"
Yasser Arafat (Maariv, Oct. 4, 1996)

"Why do other people love life, while we love death and violence, slaughter and suicide, and [even] call it heroism and martyrdom?"
Tunisian intellectual Al-Afif Al-Akhdar

[These particular "...we love death" quotes, above, were sourced here...]
http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2006/08/02/501/


Many such muslim "we love death" quotes can be found...

Google...
jihadists "we love death"
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=jihadists+%22we+love+death%22&btnG=Search&meta=

muslims "we love death"
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=muslims+%22we+love+death%22&btnG=Search&meta=



Can any  reasonable  person read the information on this page, and not come to a conclusion that  many  devout muslims are criminally psychotic?




[link]
In the news report below, the 'warriors' of ISLAM, are at it again.
Devout muslims, again acting like a tribe of enraged monkeys, with a death cult fetish murder an old woman....

ATTENTION, ATTENTION - this woman was a true martyr for her faith.

February 5, 2008
70-year-old woman, convert from Islam to Christianity, burned to death in Bangladesh
Islamic Tolerance Alert. As Muhammad said, "If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him." No one came to help put out the fire.
....DHAKA, BANGLADESH (BosNewsLife)-- Christian villagers in a Muslim-majority area of Bangladesh on Tuesday, February 5, mourned the death of a 70-year-old woman who died from burns she suffered when a mob reportedly set her home ablaze as a punishment for converting from Islam to Christianity.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/019813.php
http://www.bosnewslife.com/news/3416-news-alert-elderly-burned-convert-dies-in

The Hadith instructs muslims, "...If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him."
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/052.sbt.html#004.052.260


comment: clearly muslims are still devoutly 'practising' their 'religion'.






[link]
ISLAM the 'Religion of  Peace ',
....try
ISLAM the 'Religion of Pieces' [body parts].

.....or
ISLAM the 'Religion of the Ghouls'.


19 January 2008
Hezbollah has Israel 'body parts'
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah says his armed group has body parts of Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon during the 2006 conflict.
He said they had the "heads, the hands, the feet and even a nearly intact cadaver" in a speech marking his first public appearance in more than a year.
......Body parts of Israeli soldiers have previously been used in prisoner exchanges between the two sides.
......Sheikh Nasrallah told the crowds: "Our fighters were fighting and confronting these Zionists. They were killing them and collecting the remains of their bodies.
"I am not talking about insignificant bodily remains. I tell the Israelis we have heads, hands, legs of your soldiers. We also have a nearly intact cadaver from the head down to the pelvis."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7197679.stm
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019642.php

In 1917, WWI, "Ghouls of the battlefield...."
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019642.php#c499075

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Nasrallah

Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader, muslim 'holy man' ?
To me, this man makes declarations, which make him sound more like a boastful serial killer.

Is this [holding 'hostage' body parts] behaviour halal [permissible], or haram [forbidden] in ISLAM??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haraam

These muslims will never get to 'Paradise' like this, hoarding the body parts of 'pigs' & 'apes' [this is how Allah refers to Jews,    ...and Christians].

cited.....Koran....2:62-65, 5:59-60, and 7:166
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/003674.php

What's that?
....Oh, Hassan Nasrallah got a special 'dispensation' from Allah to be a ghoul, did he?
/Sarc off

My own observation, is that many muslims generally, will often, willingly, contort their  moral behaviour [in 'whichever' direction!] ,  to best reflect their own best advantage, from any circumstance.
....whether their actions are actually  moral , or not.

I think you could call it ISLAMIC, moral 'sluttery'.
Harsh words?

Example [1], regards muslim 'integration' with, and exploitation of, 'host' Kuffar communities, so to speak.....

Allah
[their god!] commands devout muslims....

"....take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends....
......he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them."

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/005.qmt.html#005.051

But, when devout muslims come to Kuffar countries, live off Kuffar welfare benefits, and take Kuffar money [government benefits, and grants], isn't this inconsistent with Sharia / Koran?

Not a problem.

Because devout muslims merely regard such muslim behaviour, as obtaining their rightful Jizya from non-muslims.
Jizya is a muslim 'tax' [within full-on Sharia jurisdictions], which must be offered by local non-muslims, and accepted by muslims, as "...proof of the non-Muslims' subjection".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya

ISLAMIC, moral 'sluttery'.


Example [2], regards what is 'moral' behaviour towards those without [enforceable] rights, so to speak.....
Political strife is an opportunity, for some.
And it is loss for others.
An
'opportunity' to jettison 'moral' behaviour towards those displaced by strife...

".....At this point I looked at his wife - she looked ashamed.
She told her husband to give me some money to help me out.
He did so unwillingly - giving me less than 1% of what he should have done.
He warned me not to come back."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/7179657.stm








ISLAM, Jihadists, make a  claim  that the [Old Testament] God of Israel is  their  God.

But i don't think so....


Psalms 135:4
For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.


Muslims, Jihadists, claim that Abraham, Ishmael, Moses, King David, and Jesus are muslim prophets and patriarchs.

But many non-muslims make a counter-claim that the Allah, who is revealed in the Koran and Hadith, bears little similarity, to the God revealed in the Jewish and Christian Bibles.



The real God of Israel never exhorted man to celebrate death, and murder[!], but always to seek life, to embrace life.

Deuteronomy 30:16
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

17  But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18  I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
19  I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20  That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.


The real God of Israel stated that the consequence of following false God's [in this life] would be,     .....to choose death.


"We have discovered how to hit the Jews where they are the most vulnerable.
The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them.
We are going to win, because they love life and we love death."

Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah
[Sadly, Hassan Nasrallah is the muslim equivalent of an 'Einstein'.]


And perhaps all devout muslims, will get their hearts desire.






Psalms 34:21
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.


.....'And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.'


Read on...











In the Bible, there is a terrible warning, a prophecy, given by the God of Israel...
to those people who, like some todayboast  that they love death,
and hate God [and hate Israel]...

Ezekiel 35:1
¶Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2  Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3  And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4  I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5  Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
7  Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
8  And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
9  I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
10  ¶Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
11  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12  And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13  Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14  Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
15  As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Google...
where is mount Seir
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=where+is+mount+Seir&btnG=Google+Search&meta=


Now note in this Bible quote [above] from Ezekiel 35, the particular words,

"...in the time that their [Israel's] iniquity had an end:"

these particular words
in Ezekiel 35, would suggest that this prophecy is intended for a time after the people of Israel had been punished, by God, for their 'iniquity'.

What might signify that God's punishment of Israel was at an end?

Read on...



Ezekiel 36
God scattered Israel...

17  Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
18  Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
19  And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

and has gathered Israel again....

23  And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24  For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.


In
Ezekiel 36, God says Israel would be punished by being scattered and dispersed among the heathen, but, now read Ezekiel 36 verse 24 [above].

These verses in
Ezekiel may suggest that the prophecy [in Ezekiel 35] is, specifically, for a time after 1948!

see also,
The nation of Israel is now in a time of grace.







And here is another Bible passage which refers [i would suggest], to a 'redeemer', who has a warning to those who  'hate'  him...

Proverbs 8:32
¶Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
33  Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
34  Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
35  For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
36  But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Read the whole of  Proverbs 8  here,

"For whoso findeth me findeth life..."

see also,

To all of my muslim brothers, God truly loves you.

What is in the heart of the wicked?










Seek your God.

"...to turn them from darkness to light,"  Acts 26:18


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