Also, several sources provide financial rewards for the martyr's family here on earth. In these ways a marginalized dead-end loser becomes a hero in death that he knows he can never be in life.
Until the koran is rewritten or reinterpreted this will not change. There is trouble in River City, most definately.
Agree with all. My focus is more on the aspects of honor and shame/humiliation, and concepts (or lack thereof) of "sanctity of life" in Islam.