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Originally Posted by punky
Sure, except of course: Bali, Egypt, Algeria, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and the Yemen. And that's just off the top of my head. I am sure there are probably more.
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Ok Punky, against my better judgement, I'll bite.
Bali, Egypt, Algeria, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and the Yemen were, and still are, domestic disputes that were raging long before 9/11 and "the war on terror". Indeed some of those mentioned are internecine muslim feuds with nothing, whatsoever, to do with the west. There were bombs going off in all of these countries YEARS brfore 9/11 and the war on terror and no one gave a flying one about it.
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Originally Posted by punky
Only incident I know of, of Christianity were a couple of abortion clinic bombings in the US in the 90's. Aside from that, you probably have to go back a couple of hundred years.
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Had you grasped the context of my original post you'd have realized that was not what I was getting at. You either condone and accept the validity and results of war or you don't, there is no middle ground.
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Before you mention it, The Troubles wern't about religion, they were about politics.
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Yes, of couse, you would know. How silly of me!
"The Troubles", as you so eloquently put it, was a terminology used by the British Government to politicize the reality of what was going on on their doorstep. Interestingly two successive PM's announced that "The war is over" post ceasefires.
Understand this. What happened in Northern Ireland was a war. We have a population of over 1.5 million people who can attest to the fact and thousands of dead to prove it. We also have entire cities, towns and villages still divided, demographically, on the basis of religion. Our district councils and wards are, to this day, decided on religious make up and not political demographics.
We also have more integrity than to peddle some tabloid derived nonsense purporting to sell the myth that what happened here over the last thirty years was politically motivated.
Please, don't insult your own integrity by trying to insult mine, it serves no purpose.