I like to watch the video podcast Mosaic, which is a daily compilation of news from Middle Eastern news sources (sometimes the shows themselves are in English, sometimes they’re dubbed). It’s very interesting, and I recommend it to fellow news junkies. Anyway, I recently saw a story from an Iraqi news show about how the Iraqi government is going to give money to compensate the families of Iraq’s “martyrs”.
Who exactly are these martyrs? I googled “Iraqi martyrs” and got a bunch of links to things I’m pretty sure the Iraqi government is NOT going to give money to.
Why not? It may be buying peace by giving money to groups who would otherwise be its enemies. The USA has done exactly the same thing: paid former “terrorists” so they will switch sides.
Well, if they ARE referring to paying off the families of suicide bombers*, I don’t think the news people would be calling them martyrs. They’d probably call them, say, suicide bombers.
But I could be wrong. I don’t know! That’s why I started this thread.
*Or maltreated Iraqi Christians, who were the other big result of my google search.