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The IRA were not real Catholics
As pointed out by Mafketis, you are not in any position to judge whether someone is a real Catholic or not (nor are any of us). Perhaps explain to us all here how "real Catholicism" works. To your mind does a person stop being a real Catholic when they commit a sin ?
it would have been completely wrong to call the IRA's work Catholic terrorism, it is wrong to call the current terrorism Islamic terrorism.
The IRA weren't doing it in the name of God-they were doing it for political reasons-I've explained that before on another thread. Are you saying that every act of terrorism carried out by Al Qaeda and ISIS were not carried out by any muslims ? It's quite an original theory Harry so I will give you that but the reason why a theory isn't shared by millions is usually because the theory is wrong. However, I accept that you don't like the facts to get in the way of a good debate :)
Am I supposed to feel better looking at the victim's grave because they weren't killed in the name of God?
With all due respect Lenka but this is irrelevant. Atch was not making the point that you should be bothered. Atch was making the same point I made that the IRA were motivated by political reasons rather than by religious reasons and THAT is why the comparison Harry makes is not valid
Comparing the two situations is valid not because they commited act of terrorism for the same reason but to show that Catholics are as capable of doing it as Muslims.
Nobody is denying that Catholics are capable of committing acts of terrorism-every creed is capable of it. I respect your right to deny that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism carried out by people who happen to be muslims and who commit these acts by crying out "Praise be to Allah" and are often seen in videos released after their death proclaiming their obedience to Allah and quoting from the Q'ran. I respect your right...but you'd still be wrong.
Can any of you show me when the IRA explicitly (or even vaguely) justified their murders as part of their Catholic beliefs ?
There is plenty of Muslims that live normal lives yet we want to push them into one terrorist lot.
True but if a western country fell under overall muslim leadership (wait a few decades) and non-muslims were told they had to cover up, eat only halal, be banned from Christian worship then I am pretty sure not many of the peaceful majority would shed a tear for us. Being tolerant towards people who are extremely intolerant towards Jews, gays, women, other religions etc perhaps makes you a better person than me but I don't apologise for my pragmatic view on how Islam has "integrated" into western society so far.
