You could say the same thing about Northern Ireland (and the media regularly framed it that way), when &quot;Catholics&quot; retaliated against &quot;Protestants&quot; for some action, or the reverse.<p>The Troubles in Northern Ireland were never about religion. They were about power, territory and self-governance - it just happened that the two main &quot;sides&quot; in the conflict were also traditionally of different Christian sects - and the easiest way to spoon feed it to the uninvolved masses was under the guise of religious&#x2F;sectarian animosity because it made it slightly irrational, rather than motivated by oppression.