Martyr Quotes
Ataturk was a young major at the time commanding troops of a weak and corrupt Ottoman regime. However a combined English and French (the strongest military powers in Europe) invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula threatened to capture the Turkish capital, Constantinople. Ataturk alone rallied the Turkish defenders and fought the invaders to a standoff in long drawn out battle with huge casualties on both sides. Ataturk became a national hero. Although Ataturk thereafter was very reluctant to use military force or endanger troops, the thing he always thought worth the supreme sacrifice (including his own) was the independence and sovereignty of the nation. See {584502} for his continuing belief in this type of sacrifice.
He had been horribly tortured and then had his limbs torn from his body by horses as a form of execution. However, he turned out to be right. A modern Revolutionary Group adopted his name: Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army.
These “benefits” as well as males getting 72 virgins are constantly told to young and impressionable Muslims, some of whom take it so literally that they become suicide bombers. They actually believe that blowing themselves up feels only like the sting of a mosquito. This sales pitch for suicide bombers and other martyrs is also effective because with the poor education, high unemployment, and few political and civil rights, most young Arab males have no other way of obtaining “honor, dignity, and respect.”
President Roosevelt had a meeting with the then general, for the first time, and in the discussions Roosevelt felt that De Gaulle was taking too much authority upon himself and wanted to make all decisions for France that should be made by a government. Roosevelt reminded De Gaulle that he was not an elected official. Winston Churchill who was also present privately told Roosevelt that for his part he would burn him but his government wouldn’t allow it.
After the Japanese surrender in World War II, the Japanese assumed that the American occupational soldiers would rape Japanese women the way that the Japanese soldiers had done in their occupations. They therefore came up with a plan to have some Japanese women serve as prostitutes in organized brothels so that the Americans' lust would be satisfied.
