[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 |