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Originally Posted by Hugh
But only 20 years ago, Catholics were blowing others up and shooting others - how soon we forget...
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In fairness, and not to play down the seriousness of the death and devastation they were responsible for, the IRA attacks were nowhere near on the scale of what is being committed in the 'name of Islam'. Yes there were shootings - again with all due respect to the victims and their families - however their general MO was to phone a warning through to the police which at least gave some people a chance (albeit often not much) to evacuate.
I'm not suggesting that makes them any less evil but as such I don't agree the IRA are a legitimate comparison with these Islamic terrorists who want to cause as much death as possible.
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
islam is a problem
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Really? How?
In my department I work with around 120 people and I'd estimate about 10% of them are Muslim. Unless it has been kept very quiet we've never had any problems. They don't wander about waving copies of their Qu'ran, they don't complain about Muslims being oppressed etc etc. OK it could be said people might modify their behaviour at work in order to keep their jobs etc but I have these people on my FB and they don't post anything about 'unbelievers' or supporting terrorism.
I'm made references to this before but when I lived in Leicester there were thousands of Muslims but at no time did I feel threatened, intimidated etc.
I won't ever agree that Islam is a problem however nobody seems ever able to answer the question of why these days it attracts far more nutters than other religions or faiths. I don't consider these terrorists and hate preachers to be true Muslims however they all claim to be doing it in the "name of Islam".
I don't remember any/as many committing such acts in the name of Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism etc. So
something is drawing these idiots towards Islam and THAT is what I believe needs to addressed.