A local shop owner said he was alarmed by the prime minister's comments: "If you call one boy that was killed a terrorist, and another that was killed in the same neighbourhood a martyr, what do you think will happen?" Does he feel forced to take sides?
Those who led the Rebellion and were executed afterwards were viewed in the same way as Catholic martyrs were.
The same neighbourhood contributed four "martyrs" to the 2011 revolution that ousted long-time dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Both maverick and martyr raise the same flag, while true motives and consequences often remain deeply private and unique.
"She is beautiful and a widow of a martyr at the same time," Mr. Abu Mustafa said, using the word preferred by Palestinians for a killed fighter, often a terrorist to Israelis.
And who would bother to shoot him anyway It is hard to put yourself across as a buffoon and a potential martyr at the same time, and Huey did not convince us in either role.
Zachy Achmat, leader of a campaign to force drug companies to lower their prices, called him "a martyr" in the same sense as Soweto children once shot by the police in the struggle against apartheid.
It was thus no surprise that he was chosen by the president's widow Jacqueline and his brother Robert to write an account of the assassination that would fix Kennedy's image as a national hero and martyr, at the same time contrasting him unfavourably with his successor, Lyndon Johnson.
She died for the same reason as the first martyr of Islam, a woman named Sumayya bint Khayyat, who was killed for speaking truth to power.
She wants to be the one who let Mike escape the neighborhood by breaking up with him and at the same time the long-suffering martyr who pays the price for his indifference.
The results could take several months after today's exhumation, but the outcome would very quickly determine Yasser Arafat's memory as the same old divisive figure or a martyr.
