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I'll help you out, because I feel bad for you Kahl.... I mean not that I know anything about the Middle East that you don't or anything but...

Westerners want to practice the equivalent of social anthropomorphagy. They want to look for reasons they themselves would accept to do some act. It simply no more registers to them to be shahids anymore than they would practice Japanese foot binding. So they look for plausible reasons they would understand.

Arab, and some Muslim societies says that everything that Islam has conquered is Dars Al Islam, or the House of Islam, and that it forever belongs to the followers of the prophet, and that Islamic Law shall be the only law known, and that anyone not one of the people of the book (I.E why do you think that the diverse religions of the Sassanid Empire are all but three dead today?) shall live there, and that Jews and Christians are to be treated as Dhimmis (A class roughly similar to Jim Crow Era African Americans, or Aparthied Era Africans in SA).