Nine Mexican martyrs

I picked up on this on Amy Welborn’s weblog, Open Book. There’s a link to Open Book on my skimpy blogroll to the right of this posting.

For some reason I thought of the thug Zarqawi, proclaimed a "martyr" on the Al Queda website, and his so-called "spiritual advisor" (what was he doing – advising him about Moloch?). And the juxtaposition with these nine young men killed in the Mexican persecutions in the 1920’s.  José Anacleto Gónzalez Flores and eight Companions – biography