The Cult of Martyrdom

Have you heard? There is a community
for whom a shared pathology of hatred
is so intense that to murder is considered
an admirable feat, a joy, a celebration
of communal success. Should more
than one of the hated be killed in methods
diverse and inventive, spontaneous and
planned, assisted or a sole undertaking
all the more reason for ululating pride
in accomplishment. Celebration breaks
out its gifts of gratitude to the murderers
handing out sweets in the very streets
where such gruesome atrocities can also
be visited upon those of the community
who would dare protest that such acts
are inhumane, much less any within who
choose to warn or be complicit with those
targeted for death as the despised usurpers
of land the mass murderers claim as their
own, in a wholesale throwback in time
when territorial imperatives were deadly
emotional, raw existential matters where
tribes wrought slaughter on one another
in an early, evolving world of primitive
malevolence. Political pawns in a cult of
death and martyrdom they elevate mass
murder to a fine art in which they are the 
victims, victorious over oppressors whose
'occupation' they must at all costs 'resist'
in so doing gladly forfeiting their humanity.