Aneirin -> RE: It seems that people have forgotten about non-muslim extremists (8/15/2010 5:07:54 PM)
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Yeah, and it was known many US citizens at one time actually gave money to the PIRA to buy weapons and kill the British, that is remembered and all over some bollocks about ancestry. But what the Provisional Irish Republican Army was in later years became a different thing, for it was known they dabbled in gangster like activities to raise their funds, or was it in reality they were just gangsters who used a cause to achieve their aim, I suspect the latter and it is what I suspect in this case, make something religious or political and it makes it more acceptable in the eyes of the world. What the IRA were at the time of the 1916 uprising, I have some sympathy for, and believe if my country was occupied by another country which opressed my countrymen, I might be similarly inclined to fight back, but now with NI, it is a whole different situation, the troubles have passed, no one wants them any more, yet we keep hearing about these little atrocities happening, people being murdered under the flag of politics or religion, why, to let us know the old bogeyman is still breathing or a cover for criminal activities of a more common kind.
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