martyrdom

Sadly, the fastest route to martyrdom is quite literally by biting a bullet, so no, AK-47's all round.

He was literally risking martyrdom in order to fight for justice in the name of his God.

My rationale for that is his statements that make him seem to be basking in martyrdom.

There seems to be a false idea in our country that civil disobedience demands martyrdom.

Islamist groups are not so fixated on martyrdom and the proverbial 72 virgins as you may have been led to believe.

You may be OK with economic martyrdom if it comes down to it, but it's unlikely you actually want that to disrupt your life.

It's basically saying martyrdom is the one true path to change.

I downvoted you not because of your disagreement, though I think you're wrong, but because of your peculiar insistence on self-martyrdom.

There you could, indeed, face harsh reprisals, ranging all the way up to martyrdom, for refusing to spy on your fellow citizens.

For him, the stakes are too high to risk martyrdom.

The tirades about Israel on popular television (of any arab-speaking country), or the calls for martyrdom by clerics — it's silly to try and appease those.

If that's all it takes for martyrdom, we're all going to be martyrs.

Complaining about "big issues" that no one has the resources/will to fix always sounds like martyrdom to me.

Martyrdom: "a display of feigned or exaggerated suffering to obtain sympathy or admiration."

He gives an insight into what happened during the meeting between Abu Bakr, Umar, and himself: "Abu Bakr sent for me at a time when the Yamama battles had witnessed the martyrdom of numerous Companions.

PG's essay "What You Can't Say" addresses this also; unless your life's goal is to rehabilitate the particular social taboos of your time (that is, unless martyrdom is your goal), it's probably best not to get directly associated with that rehabilitation effort.

Martyrdom is a concept that is somewhat foreign or unexpected in American culture.