[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yes obviously the two are not similar in that respect but what is similar is if you target all Irish people all you will do is make those people think "hey maybe the IRA are right, we shouldn't be treated like this when our only crime is being Irish" etc that can easily be applied to Muslims in this scenario if they're being told "we're breaching your human rights because you're Muslim so might be a terrorist but hey if you aren't than you should be happy to be water boarded/deported/imprisoned"

Yes exactly.

This is why its really important after each of these events that we remind people not to blame the average Muslim. Yet when people say this they are accused of terrorist sympathizing. Which to me, means those accusing actually do just blame all Muslims for it.