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Originally Posted by Vicky.
Generally yes. Religion (to me anyway) just gives hope to many, and hope is never a bad thing. I am not religious in the slightest and think its all fairy stories, but if it makes large numbers of people happy and feel safe, who am I to judge?
I do not believe a minority of people using Islam as an excuse to do terrible things are representative of the religion itself, same as I don't blame all Catholics for the actions of the IRA and such.
These nutjobs will always do terrible things and find someone/something to blame it on.
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Originally Posted by Pete.
Yes
It's reductive for someone to see how Islam is portrayed in the media and not recognise that extremists are a minority bunch of crazies who do not reflect the core virtues of Islam anyway? As Vicky said the IRA did not give Catholics a reputation of trigger happy bombers so why should normal muslims with IS and the like?
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imo the IRA is not comparable here when you're talking about using Religion as a war tool. This was not why the IRA was formed, the IRA was formed because Ireland was taken over by Britain and then split in two and the IRA were fighting for the country back, not because they were trying to convert anyone to Catholicism or were doing it in the name of Catholicism, it really annoys me when British people try to pass it off as some sort of religious war. Yes most of the "Republicans" in the North are/were Catholics but that's just because Catholicism was the predominant Irish religion. There were actually Protestant members of the IRA too.
I'm not defending the IRA here btw especially in later years there was no going back but I hate the fact that alot of times British people are under the impression that the North was some sort of Religious war where the Catholics are trying to convert the Protestants or something when in Reality it was always a fight for our country back that you lot started by the way by invading us and beating our language out of us, etc etc
If it weren't for the IRA or the earlier version of it the whole of Ireland would still be part of Britain