In recent years we have seen mosques used to preach hatred; to spread exhortations to terrorist activity; to house a bomb factory; to store weapons; to disseminate messages from bin Laden; to demand (in the U.S.) that non-Muslims conform to Islamic dietary restrictions; to fire on American troops; to fire upon Indian troops; to train jihadists; and so we know they're places of peace, and anyone who suggests otherwise is a greasy Islamophobe. "Jihad,Va.: Awlaki may be dead, but his radical American mosque remains," by Paul Sperry in the New York Post, October 9 Martyr in an Islamic context refers to someone who kills and is killed for Allah (cf. Qur'an 9:111). http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/jihad_va_2UmOJEP1NQHzF6g9OgWYfI