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Sacrifice - Laurie Taylor explores the many meanings of the term. Terry Eagleton, Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of Lancaster, argues that sacrifice has a bad press in the modern age. The notion of giving anything up fails to appeal in a world devoted to self-fulfilment. But is there more to sacrifice than burnt offerings and self-denial? Can it ever be radical? Also, Chetan Bhatt, Director for the Centre on Human Rights at the LSE, examines the idea of sacrifice as invoked by Salafi-Jihadist suicide bombers. Does the inherently de secular nature of sacrifice inevitably pose the risk of promoting political violence? Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:58.0 | Ambulances rushing to the site of an explosion. The target, Quetta's main hospital. |
| 1:07.0 | There were scenes of carnage and chaos as emergency services rushed to move the |
| 1:12.0 | injured to safety. |
| 1:13.9 | The police suspect a suicide bombing. |
| 1:16.4 | A provincial town thrown into panic. |
| 1:19.0 | The explosion was set off in early afternoon by a woman's suicide bomber outside the headquarters of the governing party. |
| 1:25.6 | In the rubble of a huge bomb blast, candles, prayers and tears. |
| 1:31.7 | The so-called Islamic State sent the lorry packed with explosives into the heart of Baghdad |
| 1:37.0 | when the streets were full of people celebrating the Eid Festival during the Holy month of Ramadan. |
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