[ExI] Terrorist? Who can tell?

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Sat Aug 23 20:19:47 UTC 2008


At 12:58 PM 8/23/2008 -0700, Lee wrote:

>>Many UK terrorists are Irish, but it's hard to tell whether
>>or not they are Catholic. Many have a "middle-Eastern"
>>appearance."
>
>Not quite sure what Catholicism has to do with it

Yes, that was careless of me, thinking only of the IRA and related 
factions. I should have written "hard to tell if they are Catholic or 
Protestant" Irish, since both lots seemed to enjoy a bit of bombing 
and beating.

>  more pertinently,
>I thought that Irish terrorists have not been a problem in the UK
>for a long time.

This might well be the case. Let's hope so.

Damien Broderick





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