Franciscan missionaries deliberately sought execution by abusing Islam publicly

Evidence

Some missionaries seem to have allowed or encouraged ‘preaching’ and ‘disputation’ to degenerate into provocation. … In Seville they tried to break into the Friday mosque, and, when they were driven away by the crowd, as ‘ambassadors of the King of Kings’ they went and abused Muhammad and Islam outside the royal palace instead. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 686

Categorization

• XREF: Missionaries demanding their own death stages Muslims as necessary persecutors — connects to sacrifice/self-staging themes and to the vault’s constitutive-outside analysis.