Although she would not have called herself that, Linda was an activist, a title so charged in today's political discourse, so depreciated, that it is often claimed before it is earned. However, her commitment to service embodied its essential meaning, and Linda's devotion to refugees and battered women, new family and old friends, elevated her to the highest order of Christchurch's community of activists.

DEFINE: Clarifies the essential meaning of 'activist' as earned commitment to service, contrasting with the depreciated political charge of the term.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1004