john hall johnhallevergonet stephen williams mailtosdwlignet sent monday september 16 2002 742 pm 1 religion currently expressed matters religion claim foul actions past certainly christianity islam etc hence qualifier current b currently expressed amounts tacit acknowledgement sophistication society involved peoples selflimiting reasonableness important avoid primitive expression leads point religion less sophisticated societies dangerous mix also tends invoke image extremes might occur without diligent maintenance society tacit acknowledgement selflimiting speak given function sophistication primarily feature current western civilization course sophisticated western civilization essentially equivalent imho need northern ireland protestant vs catholic feud recently less concluded completely unlike kind friction generated splitting society much along religious lines one post article pointed problem basically stemmed vertical integration areas along religious lines way schools government political party etc course cases heritage british conquest doesnt sometimes religious component faade equally dangerous ethnic affiliation hindu extremism isnt hindu religious theology far see peg hang ethnic identity identity politics muslim extremism appears far greater connection theology northern ireland british province green valleys cloudcovered hills whose 16 million people politically religiously divided 54 percent population protestant protestants unionists want province remain part britain roman catholic minority predominantly republican nationalist want merge republic ireland south yep scots ate oats starved irish long ago english preferred wheat doesnt grow well ireland introduction potatoes saved irish irish thats fine would inappropriate concentration would difficult address issues raised clean way id happy acknowledgement connection oh think war wide aspects muslim religion know might appropriate admit publicly 3 us leadership remains reflexively multicultural ok point long doesnt shy away logical objective analysis society could seriously improved certain ways didnt say good thing exception ethnic restaurants generally counted oppose anything labeled multicultural didnt say burning train good thing said understood wasnt spontaneous attack people done wrong true although dont think clear originally im sure wasnt mon 16 sep 2002 201110 0700 slaughter name god