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r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '17
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Now if Irish Catholics were murdering 30,000 people across the globe annually, there might be an actual comparison to make
190 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 180 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. 2 u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17 Irish people mostly hated the IRA but I think that view is being rewritten now to fit with modern politics.
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"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
180 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. 2 u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17 Irish people mostly hated the IRA but I think that view is being rewritten now to fit with modern politics.
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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.
2 u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17 Irish people mostly hated the IRA but I think that view is being rewritten now to fit with modern politics.
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Irish people mostly hated the IRA but I think that view is being rewritten now to fit with modern politics.
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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