To Tom

Submitted by Vijay (United Kingdom), Mar 16, 2006 at 05:51

>Submitted by Tom N., Mar 16, 2006 at 00:36

>Have we never heard of the IRA? The whole northern Ireland conflict---which included atrocious >acts of violence and terrorism---is one that is fundamentally about Catholic-Protestant >religious intollerance.

The conflict in NI was a national conflict , one between British identity and Irish identity.
Also at no time did IRA throw bombs in the name of Pope or catholic church, they indulged in violence in the name of Irish nationalism, till the Irish themselves got sick IRA violence in their name.

It is a Muslim habit to see all the conflicts in the world through the prism of their own religious prejudices and imagine that the world is a mirror image of them and this does not allow for an objective assessment

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