Religiously motivated murderers killed many modern Middle Eastern rulers and intellectuals

Evidence

In the modern Middle East there have been many murders—kings, prime ministers, other ministers, intellectuals, writers, most of them by religiously motivated murderers. Apart from Sadat, the two most celebrated victims were the Persian Prime Minister ’Alı¯ Razma¯ra¯, killed by the Fida¯’iya¯n-i Islam in 1951, and the Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi Noqrashı¯ killed by the Muslim Brethren in 1948. The list is long and may still grow longer. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 579

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Most modern Middle Eastern political murders are religiously motivated.; Martyrdom served as political violence to sever Muslim-Christian collaboration — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 509; Religious murder for internal succession differs from killing foreign oppressors — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 557 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Most modern Middle Eastern political murders are religiously motivated.; Martyrdom served as political violence to sever Muslim-Christian collaboration — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 509; Religious murder for internal succession differs from killing foreign oppressors — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 557 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Sadat weaponized Islam domestically and was later killed by those forces #exemplifies (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 232
• Most modern Middle Eastern political murders are religiously motivated. #expands (0.92)
• Martyrdom served as political violence to sever Muslim-Christian collaboration #complicates (0.78) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 509
• Secular ideologies have caused genocides comparable to religious ones #complicates (0.76)
• Historically apostasy was executed in Islamic and Christian societies alike #complicates (0.73)