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Originally Posted by punky
Before you mention it, The Troubles wern't about religion, they were about politics.
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Both, actually - only many times more complicated than that.
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Originally Posted by punky
<insert suitable description for the situation in Northern Island from the 1960s to 1998>
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If that were only the case - the root of the problems
go back hundreds of years.
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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
As I said earlier its a matter of disarming the mindset. Working to achieve that will develop a greater understanding and mutual respect.
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Another excellent post.
And I don't want to disagree with the main message you bring, except that the examples you have cited were indeed conflicts around very strongly held beliefs which were very savagely defended.
Yet, I don't think in either case it descended into the kind of fanatacism that bore up suicide bombers. Even when religion was a core element of the conflict.
In this case, it goes further in that the stated aim of the religion is to dominate. Not a mindset that's going to be easy to disarm...
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Airsofters:
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That one behind and to the right of you looks like an Islamic terrorist to me...
