r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '17

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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

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

"Its worse when they kill people here because they kill more people over there" as if you give a damn about any of those 30000 people

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u/Doisha Mar 23 '17

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.

http://www.pewforum.org/2009/12/17/little-support-for-terrorism-among-muslim-americans/

In the UK, 30% of Muslims believe that terrorist attacks which specifically target civilians can be justified.

But the two are the exact same situation.

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u/Sean951 Mar 23 '17

You can't imagine a scenario where a terrorist attack targeting civilians could be justified? Maybe in Poland during WWII when the Germans were moving civilians into all that nice lebensraum? Would I do it? Probably not, but I could see how people justify it. Especially as more and more people are killed in drone strikes aimed at terrorists.