I wish

Depends on the area, it can also be used to describe someone who fought (defensively is mainly the modifier is saw used, but not always) for a righteous cause

The US’s president could diddle a bunch of kids and you wouldn’t hear a peep from the international community.

But yeah, with that amount of ships and the fact they used the word seige, I can definitely see this turning poorly

Respect, definitely worried for them though

It’s not even just an arab/Muslim thing, the dual usage thing of the term martyr is also a Christian thing, at least in a few parts of it