re islamic genocide in article r gi e fido asd sgi com livesey solntze wpd sgi com jon livesey writes in article qu o horus ap mchp sni de frank d s uucp frank o dwyer writes in article qkovl k fido asd sgi com livesey solntze wpd sgi com jon livesey writes false dichotomy you claimed the killing were not religiously motivated and i m saying that s wrong i m not saying that each and every killing is religiously motivate as i spelled out in detail which killings do you say are religously motivated for example i would claim that the recent assassination of four catholic construction workers who had no connection with the ira was probably religously motivated at the time of writing i think that someone who claims the current violence is motivated by religion is reaching what would you call is when someone writes the killings in n i are not religously motivated i d say it was motivated by a primitive notion of revenge and by misguided patriotism otherwise i d have to wonder how come mainland catholics are not killed by mainland protestants and southern catholics are not killed by southern protestants and so on take away all plausible causes bar religion and the violence diminishes markedly gee why is that now it s possible to argue that religion in the past is a major contributing factor to the violence in the present but i don t know of any evidence that this is so and i m not enough of a historian to debate it given that the avowed aim of the ira is to take northern ireland into a country that has a particular church written into its constitution and which has restriction on civil rights dictated by that church i fail to see why the word past is appropriate the country also has a different official language written in its constitution and vice versa maybe they re motivated by a love of irish poetry your argument is fallacious jon for what it s worth i agree with all that you say about ireland above and more frank o dwyer i m not hatching that odwyer sse ie from hens by evelyn conlon
