martyrs

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/pakistan.bhutto/index.html

Somewhere someone decided that she's a martyr. That's nice, but to what? The nation of Pakistan? Democracy?
One thing that pops out is that the intensity of attacks ramped upwards when she returned from exile. One wonders why this would be if she was a moderate democratic leader, until one realizes that religious fanatical extremists do not like moderate democratic leaders, especially female moderate democratic leaders. That are seen favorably by Americans.
My reaction to all this was that her death was probably inevitable by this cause. Sooner or later someone who was very insane from their irrational religious fears was going to act. And act they did. Keep in mind this is the same part of the world that kills Gandhis. A world where religious belief fuels hate is always going to have violence. It amazes me that some people are willing to work through this anyway, knowing what will happen to them, and their followers, and that precious little will be accomplished because it. Which I guess is the closest thing to martyrdom out there. I just don't know what the cause was yet other than to oppose some ineffective president-general who liked being in charge.