Defining a martyr
Re “Silver screen or suicide vest,” Column One, Jan. 13
I read with much dismay about the Lebanese teenager aspiring to be a so-called martyr. She may not know any better, but I would expect a journalist to ask the most important question this young woman will ever hear in her life: “Do you not know the true definition of the word ‘martyr?’ ”
A true martyr is an innocent person dying for his or her beliefs. Those who kill themselves to kill others are not martyrs but murderers.
Socorro Varela
Los Angeles
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