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Posted on 06/11/2006 6:19:23 PM PDT by jennivinson
A Martyr’s Death By Jenni Vinson Trejo June 10, 2006
In Islam, martyr or shahid encounters a sacred level by fighting against the enemies of the true religion. In the process, he gives up his life in exchange for a higher, celestial existence. It is not merely the event of the death that identified martyrdom, but the very fulfillment of the duty of obedience to the will of Allah that brings a death to the level of sacred.
As noble it is to die in battle —that is, to die at the enemy’s hands in a just cause —so has it been considered shameful to willfully take one’s own life. Few things have been a greater taboo in Islam than suicide. The leaders of the AlQueda terrorist movement have actually reinterpreted the Quran in order to convince followers that the death of a suicide bomber would not condemn a soul to damnation.
The argument put forth is that their “true religion” is under such a serious attack from the cancerous western civilization, that serious measures must be taken in counter attacks.
Opening the door to this type of mentality has lead these extremist Muslims down a slippery slope. It’s apparently all right for a Muslim to kill himself in a suicide bomb attack if he manages to take down a few of the enemy who gets caught in the blast. Now it is apparently all right for a Muslim to commit suicide if it calls media attention to the cause of the “true religion”.
It seems as though the new Islam calls for obedience to the leaders of the jihad and not necessarily to Allah, since the spirit of the Quran has been so altered.
The U.S. military announced this morning that two men from Saudi Arabia and one from Yemen were found "unresponsive and not breathing in their cells". The three had been detainees at Guantanamo Bay for the past four and a half years and this week had been participating in protests within the military jail.
These three men will be lauded as martyrs, by their terrorist leaders, because their deaths do fall within the parameters of the new definition of an Islamic martyrdom. The classic definition of Islamic martyrdom emphasized the need for a believer to uphold a code of ethics in battle. That’s gone out the door as the ideology is now more important than any ethics.
This mindset empowered Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to kill fellow Muslims and to sent countless fellow Muslims to suicidal deaths. Al-Zarquwi met his own death this week after someone from his inner circle sold him out for $10,000.00.
It was interesting that the military was careful to report the conditions under which Al-Zaqawi died. It is said that he was still alive when he was found and that he struggled a bit, trying to roll off the gurney that held him before dying.
There are three types of martyr deaths described by Islam. There is the revivalist death, a self-sacrifice for the renewal of the faith; the honorific death, where a man dies defending the honor of the true religion and finally, the Mystical-millenarian where a man actually achieves an altered state of being, literally touching the sacred as he dies.
It was believed that Al-Zaqawi was so noble in his carriage of the jihad or holy war that he would be honored with a Mystical-millenarian martyr’s death. Instead we are told he died like a normal man, trying to flee from his captors.
We will be treated to a barrage of finger pointing in the upcoming days as to who is responsible for the deaths of the three Guantanamo prisoners. They killed themselves! They made a concerted effort to use their deaths as a weapon against the war on terror knowing full well that their deaths would cause a massive stir in our society. We have those among us who are privately giddy about having this issue to harp on so they can promote themselves.
Liberals are so willing to anything to undermine our efforts in this war. I find it astounding that we have lowered our society to the level where an enemy is willing to die to rile us. "We can't kill you right this second, so we'll kill ourselves! That ought to keep ya'll arguing for a week or so".
I certainly do not understand the mindset of a person who looks for an opportunity to attain a martyr’s death, but it does seem as though the mark has been lowered for who and what a martyr is.
Every effort was made to keep these men comfortable and alive. They were enemy combatants. The only thing we could have done different in this case was to set them free and watch them return to the war to fight against us yet again.
They can change their religion and their rules of engagement all they want. We can’t help that, but we should not alter our own will to win this war on terror against them because of how they choose to live or die.
I’m Jenni Vinson Trejo. A Martyr’s Death is My Opinion. Thank You for listening.
Islamists are present-day Klingons without the honor.
Excellent post! Love your stuff. This analysis of Islamofascism is spot on! May we hope for more?
This is why we need to bury these guys with pigs.
We will be treated to a barrage of finger pointing in the upcoming days as to who is responsible for the deaths of the three Guantanamo prisoners. They killed themselves! They made a concerted effort to use their deaths as a weapon against the war on terror knowing full well that their deaths would cause a massive stir in our society. We have those among us who are privately giddy about having this issue to harp on so they can promote themselves.
Nice shot across the bow Jenni! Keep fighting the good fight.
Cheers,
OLA
Judean Peoples Front Crack Suicide Squad, Attack!"
"Martyr" my foot. Christian martyrs did not kill for their faith - they were killed for it. In addition, in the early years of Christianity, there was much debate over whether or not it was right for Christians to go and turn themselves in and seek to die for their faith. The decision of the early Church was that Christians had to be willing to die rather than renounce or betray their faith - but that seeking to die was equally a sin. And certainly, the Church never considered killing other people to be martyrdom in any way, shape or form.
There are major differences between Christianity and the demon-spawn heresy that is Islam.
Saudis Allege Torture Caused Guantanamo Deaths
The reported suicides of two Saudi detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison for enemy combatants prompted anger in Saudi Arabia.
"A crime was committed here and the U.S. authorities are responsible," said Kateb al Shimri, a lawyer who represents relatives of Saudis held at Guantanamo. Echoing the general sentiment heard in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, al Shimri complained that “These men have been denied an honorable martyr’s death. Their dreams of flying an airplane into a building or blowing themselves up in a bus or school have been thwarted by this cruel incarceration. Shut off from their aspirations, these men were driven to ignominiously hang themselves.”
Al Shimri says he plans to sue the U.S. government for compensation on behalf of the relatives of the deceased. “The anguish of the families of these men is incalculable. Instead of frolicking with virgins in paradise, who knows where the souls of these victims of America’s satanic war against Islam now reside?”
Though he called the families’ anguish “incalculable,” al Shimri says he will endeavor to estimate a fair monetary compensation package. “Saddam Hussein used to pay the families of martyrs $25,000,” said al Shimri. “But that was for a circumstance where the deceased loved one had gone to paradise. I’m thinking a figure at least one thousand times larger would be warranted in these cases.”
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Thanks, I write on a weekly basis. Keep and eye out for me!-- Jenni
excellent point, but Mulsims were killed by Christians and vice versa and both lay claim to the whole martyr concept. Jenni
It is not merely the event of the death that identified martyrdom, but the very fulfillment of the duty of obedience to the will of Allah that brings a death to the level of sacred.
Allah must have wanted Al-Zaqawi to kill 10 muslims for every infidel.
The role of Allah was being played by Al-Zaqawi, but after this week, Bin Laden will cary the role.
Actually, the Pope granted absolution to Crusaders. That was in response to Islamic Jihad and Mujihadadeen theology. (that means, it was something the Christians learned from the Muslims).
I have a great fwiend in Rome named Biggus Dic@@s..wait until he hears about this..
Muslims were killed by the Christians in a war to take back the Holy Land. This was warfare, not martyrdom; the persons involved were defensores fidei, or defenders of the Faith. Furthermore at no point did Christians intentionally kill themselves in battle and regard it as "martyrdom."
Christians were killed by Muslims when the Muslims invaded (Spain, for example, or parts of the Middle East during the rise of Islam). Some died in warfare, but some were killed explicitly because they refused to renounce their Christian faith. That was martyrdom (witness). There's a major difference!
They weren't martyrs unless they were killed for witnessing to their faith, which is a passive thing. They were defensores fidei and not martrys. Warfare was very much discouraged by the Popes at the time. But in this case, because the war was intended to take back the Holy Land and rescue captive Christians, the Popes permitted it.
You make an excellent point. So noted. Thanks for the lesson and correction.-- Jenni
Hah? You been all those car bombers and pizza parlor bombers aren't going to kiss the hands of 72 virgins?
errrrr.....been = mean.
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