To instill terror into kuffar.
Abu Sakkar seemed to confirm that the point of the video was to instill terror in enemy fighters when he claimed to have another video.
An unpopular regime can survive if it is repressive enough, but Iran's hard-liners don't imprison their critics consistently enough to instill terror.
In current parlance the pirates were terrorists, since they sought to instill terror in innocent victims to further their own ends.
The pun is intentional: Nemesis Sub-Terra is designed to instill terror in the thousands of riders who, from Saturday, are expected to surge through the turnstiles of Alton Towers.
Any police force would be shaken by the sight, but the grisly tableau's arrangement seemed designed to instill terror in young officers from parts of southern Mexico where superstition and belief in sorcery are common.
Bahraini doctors and international human rights workers say the purpose of the crackdown appears to be to instill terror in doctors, so they will not care for wounded demonstrators, and fear in dissidents, who might think twice about confronting the police if they know that being injured might mark them for arrest.
Dharmapāla, ( Sanskrit: "defender of the religious law") Tibetan drag-gshed ("cruel, wrathful hangman"), in Tibetan Buddhism, any one of a group of eight divinities who, though benevolent, are represented as hideous and ferocious in order to instill terror in evil spirits.
And if tarantulas in the laundry room after the first rains of fall instill terror, then remain calm, scoop them with a dustpan, pop them into a grocery sack and head for a vacant lot; rest assured, there are thousands of lovelorn male Bay Area blond tarantulas "seeking sexy spider ladies" on nearby Mount Diablo.
Its anecdotes concern adults who unwittingly instill terror with bedtime prayers that incorporate words about failing to wake; Houston's heat, humidity, two-inch cockroaches and assorted snakes; rules and the breaking of rules, the supposed poisons in golf ball cores and the unrealized perils of bicycling in the wake of trucks spraying the streets with insecticides.
