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Martyrdom: the Excuse for Mass Murder

Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times | February 18, 2009

The Indian-Muslim community refuses to bury the Pakistani-Muslims involved in the Mumbai terrorist attacks. ++ Their interpretation of the attacks not as an attempt at martyrdom but as an act of mass murder seeks to delegitimize the recruitment of young Muslims to suicide missions and portrays such acts to be a threat to the healthy development of Muslim communities. ++ What has happened in India is the best way to fight terrorism: the cultural and religious redefinition of a terrorist act not as “jihad” but as “fasad.”