Only to us, for whom martyrdom has a much different cause/effect relation. They see themselves as much more directly involved religiously in the world than we do. Perhaps that is not well stated; but for them government is a theocracy; anything else is not a legitimate government. You either live as God (as they perceive Him) would have it, or you are of the devil. We have the ability to separate religion from the world (i.e. we do not see the secular as automatically anti-religious; it may be anti religious, or pro religious, or simply neutral), and they do not. Actually, I would say that rather than being watered down, it should be seen as very rich; wrong, but rich.
They see dying as very interrelated with the forces of Good and Evil, and they have what we would consider a very distorted view of Good and Evil. In addition, they appear to be rather short-changed in the area of mystery; i.e. the mystery of suffereing, and the mystery of evil.
