The martyrdom of Archbishop Cranmer, said the don at last, grimacing with embarrassment.
The martyrdom of Hussein carries a significance for Shia similar to Christ's crucifixion, according to GlobalSecurity.org, an international security group.
The pilgrimage is to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Musa al-Kadhim, one of the 12 Imams of Shia Islam.
"The sad news of the martyrdom of another group who protested the results of the elections has caused our society astonishment and our people mourn them, " said the statement attributed to Moussavi.
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They regard the denial of Ali's alleged right to succeed the prophet on his death, his subsequent murder, and the martyrdom of his son Hussein at Karbala (in present-day Iraq) later as seminal events.
He's specific about the radicals: They are evil men who have perverted the meaning of "martyrdom, " changing it from the act of dying for one's faith to killing others to advance the dominion of one's faith.
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For Doctor Qaradawi the Intifada was also Islam's glory. 2001 QARADAWI: W must plant the love of death and the love of martyrdom in the Islamic nation.
Yet Mr. Bush's flirtation with the term unquestionably pushed Muslim intellectuals to debate the legitimacy of its use and the cult of martyrdom that had -- and may still have -- a widespread grip on many among the faithful.
The cult of martyrdom raises death over life, Tahrir Square sanctifies the opposite.
The culture of martyrdom means that some no longer know what they are fighting for.
And it helps that they pay their fighters with cash as well as the promise of martyrdom.
Rauf wrote that he himself supervised the recording of the duo's martyrdom tape in a house in Islamabad they were renting after their training.
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The six million men, women and children exterminated by the Nazis belonged to a great people not predestined to martyrdom, but the victim of gratuitous barbarism.
And here atop the highest parapet stood two stone burial vaults decorated with the green flags of martyrdom.
Martyrdom is the test of faith, but the test of truth is truth.
Naseer talked about martyrdom and the merits of various forms of attack, from using rifles on the streets to time bombs.
They fear a theocratic regime that embraces the Shia tradition of martyrdom may not be deterred by a nuclear balance of terror.
It is characterized by such barbaric practices as beheadings of apostates, subjugation of Jews and Christians, stonings for adulterers, flagellation for women deemed "unchaste, " amputations for petty crimes, female genital mutilation and martyrdom in the service of jihad.
Giuliani has said that the experience reveals much about his character: he is, by his account, the stalwart, the lone defender of the cause, even unto martyrdom.
Bob Marley died young, but he managed to avoid many of the most common pitfalls and pratfalls of rock martyrdom.
The title has particular resonance in Shia Iran, where martyrdom has been woven into the very fabric of the Islamic republic since its inception.
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That became the set for the subsequent scene, in which the nuns took their vow of martyrdom.
Unfortunately for Israel, the seizure of ships with commandos, despite the prospect that some of the 700 pro-Palestinian activists aboard might seek martyrdom, led to 9 deaths and further eroded Israel's international standing.
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It celebrates the end of the 40-day Ashura period honoring Hussein's martyrdom.
That said, the currency union was hardly an act of martyrdom by Germany.
Privately, several of those who know her well say she is quite prepared for what she would see as her own martyrdom, and even talks of the need for martyrs to galvanise the cause of Afghan women.
Iranian government-backed broadcaster Press TV has finally got its fondest wish and lost its UK broadcast licence, but its martyrdom is self-inflicted rather than the result of any government conspiracy.
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