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Napoleon Bonaparte once said that "It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr." Although this statement leaves sparse room for argument, it does little to define who can really be called a martyr. Are the soldiers fighting in Iraq martyrs or is Osama Bin Laden, who once said that "I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God", a real martyr? Let's try to find the answer by looking at changes in the definition of the word martyr from the time the word first existed. It is a seemingly difficult task to define the word martyr by looking at the history, but I will try my best to make its meaning as clear as possible. The word martyr was originally taken from the Greek word martur. Martur literally means "a witness." This generated later forms of the word in Old French...

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