Nashwan compared the IRA to Islam as a whole.
No, I didn't.
I was responding to the ironic comment "Islam is a religon of peace"
I was merely pointing out that a lot of atrocities have been carried out, recently, in the name of Christianity, both catholic and protestant varieties, and pointing out that doesn't stop Christianity being a religion of peace.
He he also made a comparison between Christianity and the Islam. Terrorism that comes from Islam is directed at the entire world. What comes out of Ireland is directed at you Brits for being Bastards going back a long time.
No, most Islamic terrorism is directed against people they think are oppressing Muslims, be it the West for supporting Israel, the Russians for not giving in to the Chechens, etc.
Just like NI, religon is one of the focus points, not the underlying cause.
Your government created the conditions in which this type of hatred festered. Don't cry foul when the dog bites you.
So Israelis can't cry foul when a bomb goes off? Americans can't cry foul for the WTC, because it's America that enables Israel to oppress the Palestinians.
At least the Muslims have a current grievance, rather than the Irish who base their terrorism on events that finished 80 years ago.
Hardly, but its your twisted logic that lumps what happened at the WTC (and other acts of violence by Islam) and claim its is equal to whatever the IRA has done. You also never mention loyalist violence.
I mentioned Loyalist violence.
The WTC and what the IRA have done ARE equal. Not in scale, not in methods, but in the effect they have on peoples lives.
It doesn't really matter to the relatives wether their loved ones were killed when a plane was flown into a building, or when a car bomb exploded outside a shop.
In levels of ruthlesness, and contempt for human life, the IRA are every bit a match for Islamic terrorists.
The IRA don't threaten me or the world.
Ah, that's the difference.
Muslim terrorists are evil because they threaten America, Irish terrorists aren't because they threaten Britain.
The Irish never invaded your island, in stilled themselves as lords and masters and killed you when you resisted.
Yes they did.
The Irish used to raid western Britain even during the Roman times. After the Romans left, they invaded many times, often in concert with the Picts and Saxons. They set up Kingdoms in Wales and Cornwall and Scotland.
All of Europe has a history of wars with their neighbours. What's remarkable about the Irish isn't what happened to them, most populations of conquered kingdoms were treated much worse, it's that they still bear grudges for events that happened hundreds of years ago.
My post was in reference to Nashwan who tried to equate IRA violence with the violence of radical Islam.
No, I tried to equate terrorism with terrorism, and to point out that Islam is no more, and no less, a religon of terrorism than Catholicism is.
