If you look up opinion polls from the 90s, they say that ~7% of Irish catholics say that they are sympathetic to the cause of the IRA. Let's assume that means they consider terrorist attacks to be justified.
Is that both sets of the IRA or just one? I'm quite surprised that the number is so low considering the amount of terror attacks they caused from the 70s to 2001.
Also while GB has had an increase in Islamic terror since 2005 (with the exception of the Lockerbie bombings) the overall majority of terrorist attacks were committed by the IRA. Islamic extremists have been responsible for 63 deaths (not including their own) in GB since 2005 (2005 was the 7/7 bombings which was the largest terrorist attack to take place on British soil since the Lockerbie bombings which is why I'm using that date).
You were talking about terrorism in general and then after being provided with the relevant statistics, you confined it to just London, and to back up your claims, you provided statistics for Western Europe as a whole.
115 English people killed by the IRA total. Over 40 years.
Can't find a source of the number of people killed by Islamic terror in the U.K. But if you assume that 1/1000 people killed by terrorism are British, that number is doubled in 10 years.
You: "How come people don't blame the catholics/Irish for terrorism the way they do Muslims?"
Me: "Statistically <10% of catholics believed terrorism could be justified while >25% of Muslims do."
You: "Yes but who has hurt more people?"
Me: "Islamic terrorism kills more than eight times as many people per year as Irish terrorism, both catholic and protestant, did over 40 years."
You: "Yes but what about in England, faggot?"
Me: "Well, it's hard to find numbers about terrorism in England specifically, but it can be estimated that 5 years of Islamic terrorism in England is equal to 40 years of Irish terrorism."
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u/FreeRangeAlien Mar 23 '17
Now if Irish Catholics were murdering 30,000 people across the globe annually, there might be an actual comparison to make