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kettlehead wrote: »

He also says that the government are ignoring the issue and that ISIS are openly recruiting here. It's only a matter of time before we get hit. The "ah sure be grand, everyone loves the Irish" attitude is very naive attitude to hold.

In fairness as much as I think our current policies are dangerous, for now we should be safe.

We are simply not important enough, and our location saves us. Importing military grade firearms into our island is not as easy as it was in the days of the Libyans sending them to the IRA. While some organised crime gangs no doubt have these weapons and have the connections to import more of them, frankly none of them are stupid enough to sell them to a bunch of jihadists- any national loyalty aside, the Gardai are going to put a lot more effort into who provided the weapons used in a terror attack than they are as to who imported the Glock used to shoot Anto dead on Sheriff Street. Remember all of the effort they put into finding the source of the gun that killed the Latvian woman whose husband allegedly ordered her murder from prison- the gangster who provided the gun had the fixer killed as he was outraged the gun was used in such a high profile hit and with the heat it brought on him.

Aside from that, we do not have the inter-communal tensions that much of Europe has. Most Germans I have met have a negative view of Turks. Most Dutch people I have met have a negative view of Turks/ Moroccans. Most northern English people I have met have a very negative view of Pakistanis, whereas in London the most disliked group from my experience are the Somalians. No matter what the nationality the complaints are the same- intimidating neighbourhoods of towns, lack of respect for native women, burqas and welfare dependency.


So you can only imagine that, whoever started the fight, it is to some degree reciprocated against the aforementioned majority groups in said countries.

Here we don't really have that problem, possibly because our Muslim population is generally evenly spread out and children are forced to mix outside their group. Not to mention that despite the fact that the Nodinistas would love nothing more than to see groups here given the freedom to stand outside the war memorial garden burning tricolours and proclaiming that our fallen troops in Lebanon would burn in hell, the Irish people would not stand for it in the same way the Brits accepted it with a sort of resignation that to oppose it with violence would relegate ones self to the social group of a Millwall fan. You only have to see what happened during the Love Ulster parade to see that shi't like that simply don't fly in our country, no matter how much the left wish it did.