Is Islam A Death Cult?

[Leonardo17]

Dying for any cause is the highest honor in its context.
Example is American soldiers dying in war.

So? your point; I mean?

BrianSoddingBoru4 explained it well.

I would only add that the word martyr is seldom used in the western world when describing fallen soldiers.
They just call them heroes but they also call soldiers that have returned heroes.

So, dying is not the highest honor.

I did some spiritual research on that. I think it’s as simple as this: If everyone in a marching military unit starts thinking “I would like to sea the sea before I die”, “I would like to unite with my lover and see if my children will be male or female”, “I could help my father work the land more efficiently” etc, that army will start moving backward instead of moving forward.
 
After the Battle of Thermopilae (Movie= 300 Spartans) the Spartans erected a monument there with this inscription:

Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
 
“O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians (Spartans) that
we lie here, obedient to their words.[144]

Thermopylae
 
 
Meaning: “O passenger, know that we died here as soldier (we died well) because we chose to obey to the order that were given to us”
 
- So this is a cultural phenomenon. People are said to have died well when they do it to defend other lives and the Quran is backing this approach. (that’s how I see it)