Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Perhaps It’s Because There Aren’t Any Numbers Of Them? « Expat Yank

re: "...Northern Ireland perpetually appears to be about the best example anyone can ever seem to summon up for “Christian terror” . . . and it’s wrong, at that. Given that, it seems worth repeating...…The IRA is a nationalist organization that rooted its “revolution” in the politics of the nation-state and socialism. Yes, most IRA members were and are undoubtedly at least nominal Roman Catholics. However, referring to them as “Christian terrorists” would have been a major misnomer because their goal was never, say, to re-create the medieval “Papal States” on Irish soil, or to eject all “non-believers” from Italy and re-establish papal rule there"..."...

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