El Tarangu wrote: » Well, for me there isn't; I don't see a whole lot of difference between a radicalised muslim murdering a teacher due to some arbitrary religious difference, and the IRA shooting dead 10 workers because they don't believe in transubstantiation (or the UVF murdering some taxi driver, because he did).
Gervais08 wrote: » Yeah I missed the part where he beheaded someone for a cartoon in the Daily Mail. Ffs you people.
MikeOxsgreen wrote: » Its your point, for you there is "not a lot of daylight between IRA murdering Protestants and ISIS" is the issue!
splashuum wrote: » Very disrespectful on the French victim. Its arguable that the body of the terrorist shouldn't have been allowed to leave France. The large crowd at the funeral lauded the terrorist as a "lion of Islam"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9025443/Terrorist-beheaded-French-teacher-buried-Chechnya.html
Deleted User wrote: » Well to be fair you can quote the old Testament to that effect. In fact the Koran is not referring to christians when it references unbelievers, but atheists or sometimes polytheists. Christians are people of the book. The modern extreme version of Islam might not make that distinction though.
El Tarangu wrote: » I'm not claiming that the IRA was as bad as ISIS; taking the actions of one Chechen Muslim man who brutally murdered a teacher, and equating it with all Muslims in the world (or even all the people in Chechnya - and that one was mod) is about as accurate/helpful as when the English blamed all Irish people for the actions of the PIRA. 200 turning up at his funeral says no more about the wider population of the region than the few thousand that turned up at Bobby Storey's funeral.
Deleted User wrote: » except for close family, it does. It was 200 from that village.
jmreire wrote: » There's a very big difference between the % of believers that actually carry out these atrocities, and the "Silent Majority",,,, but just because this majority is not actively involved. does not mean that they disagree with them. How can they when the Quran explicitly teaches that the unbelievers must submit, or be killed?
El Tarangu wrote: » I've seen a fair few Irish people on boards saying that the IRA are great, but I don't think it's representative of Irish peoples generally (and anyway, I don't actually believe that for a minute). Given that there are millions of Muslims in France and Belgium, the fact that the streets of their cities are not littered with the corpses of non-believers is probably indicative of the fact that most Muslims don't actually feel this way.
joseywhales wrote: » Going to a funeral does not imply that one supports the dead person's actions.
Entrances to Shalazi - population 5,330 - were sealed off by 65 police officers to stop others attending.
seamus wrote: » Large funerals for horrible murdering scumbags in their home town is not exactly a surprise.https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/174E1/production/_113175459_bobby_storey_funeral50.jpghttps://world.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2013/04/1667961061.jpg
marieholmfan wrote: » She was the point of the spear of a war against mankind
ElJeffe wrote: » I spoke to a Muslim guy only last Friday who said he didn't view a lot of the events in Europe the last few years as terrorism. I don't know if he was looking for a reaction or he was genuine but it left me a little stunned tbh.
jmreire wrote: » Why would he? First and foremost for each and every Muslim on the planet is to follow the teachings of Mohammad...so of course killing non believers, especially those perceived as insulting Islam is lauded. And that's the main problem with Islamic Murder is legalised, but only one way..muslims killed by non muslims, is not to be countenance.. under any circumstances. It's extreme racist and islamophobic
MikeOxsgreen wrote: » Jesus H Christ. You might regale us with stories of the IRA committing genocide of a people, enslaving and the industrial the rape of girls? -selling slaves to each other -casting gays from rooftops -setting pilots on fire in cages as they stream it -machine gunning 100s of cadets into pits -hacking heads from lines of captives
Deleted User wrote: » You just did. More than once. Finding justifications is defending. Rubbish. That was in the days of when people were fighting various forms of oppression, and sought freedoms for their nation or particular group. What oppression or freedoms were they fighting against to cut the head off a civilian in a foreign country? Go on.. I'd love to see you argue the freedom fighter angle on this one.. because I suspect you know that you don't have a leg to stand on. When was the last time we (western nations) honored someone for beheading a civilian? Hell, a variety of western nations have brought up their soldiers on criminal charges for "barbaric" behavior abroad, which is far cry from what you're suggesting (imagine what we'd do to a civilian vigilante who decided to do the same). Nor, have I seen any suggestion of a western civilian population praising the behavior of soldiers in torturing or killing "the enemy" in brutal ways. Perhaps you can enlighten me?
El Tarangu wrote: » The IRA saw no compunction with murdering people purely on the basis that they were protestant; to me, there is not an awful lot of daylight between this and ISIS/Al Qaeda/whoever murdering people on the basis that they are Christian, or other.
El Tarangu wrote: » Everyone's own cause always seems justified and righteous to themselves, and rarely to those on the receiving end of the bullets/bombs/beheadings. The IRA saw no compunction with murdering people purely on the basis that they were protestant; to me, there is not an awful lot of daylight between this and ISIS/Al Qaeda/whoever murdering people on the basis that they are Christian, or other.
CtevenSrowder wrote: » That is a very bold claim to make without any evidence to back it up...
WrenBoy wrote: » One had/has a political /military aim to remove British rule from all of Ireland. The other is a religion who's teaching are that all those that do not submit to that religion should be attacked and subjugated until they are "subdued" everywhere, worldwide. Not a fringe, debatable opinion by scholars, a main concrete part of the faith which luckily not all are prepared to act on themselves. To go against that teaching is to go against the religion which they will not do. It is much more apart of their lives and identity than religion in the west is to us.
Deleted User wrote: » I have yet to see any degree of widespread condemnation from a Muslim population over these kind of attacks. Sure, I've seen a few small groups with a spokesperson make conciliatory remarks, but no outright condemnation.
El Tarangu wrote: » The IRA also murdered teachers; ISIS has suicide bombers, whereas the IRA had proxy bombs. I think that people use the example of the IRA to illustrate that equating all Irish people with the actions of the PIRA is as unhelpful as equating the actions of all "Muslims", a couple of billion people across a couple of hundred countries, with the actions of a few hundred terrorists.
El Tarangu wrote: » The IRA also murdered teachers; ISIS has suicide bombers, whereas the IRA had proxy bombs.
I think that people use the example of the IRA to illustrate that equating all Irish people with the actions of the PIRA is as unhelpful as equating the actions of all "Muslims", a couple of billion people across a couple of hundred countries, with the actions of a few hundred terrorists.
tdf7187 wrote: » And little Leo V wants more of these types in our country.
DrumSteve wrote: » I actually had a big reply done up about how the comparisons between the RA and this little **** head are ridiculous but I cannot be bothered.