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A war over who deserves to be called a 'martyr'
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Media outlets affiliated with the "Axis of Resistance" have described Lebanese bully boy Samir Qantar as a "martyr" after he was killed in Syria in a suspected Israeli attack earlier this month. Many in the Arab world are quick to label those killed by Israel as a "martyr." But this description angered opponents of the Assad regime; how can someone who professed support to Assad's criminal regime and fought alongside it be called a martyr, even if "the enemy" Israel killed him?

Many took to social media to voice their anger about this, pointing to Qantar's "involvement in the killing of the Syrian people."

It seems we've begun to grant titles of "martyrdom" while overlooking the biographies of these “martyrs”
But again, it was only few days later that media outlets who oppose the Assad regime described leader of the Jaish al-Islam
Posted by: Fred 2015-12-30
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=440298