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SWAMPIES SODDING OFF
The spirit of Sod off, swampy! seems to be spreading. In London:
Inayat Bunglawala had just finished his talk on “Islamophobia and the Media” at the London Muslim Center when a man stood and berated him. “Where is your beard and your thobe?” Mr. Bunglawala said the man shouted, referring to the long garment worn by some Muslim men. “How dare you come to the mosque without them. How dare you preach about the new Koran.”
Then something unusual happened on that day in January, said Mr. Bunglawala and others who were there. The several Islamic militants in the room were chased outside by the crowd, and a fistfight broke out. The militants, followers of Abu Abdullah, a firebrand imam, quickly retreated.
Sod off, swampy! And in Belfast:
They have no guns, no bodyguards, nor any police protection.
Yet with words and a raw courage that few of their neighbours have mustered, five sisters have done more to hasten the destruction of the Irish Republican Army than the combined might of the British and Irish Governments.
The five sisters have stood up to the IRA over the murder of their brother. Apparently graffiti reading “IRA scum out” is appearing on Belfast’s streets.
Will he bring to justice all the other killers he knows about, or is this a nauseatingly opportunist reaction to being caught out for once?
I can’t believe that Bush isn’t singling him out on St Patrick’s Day. He isn’t inviting Adams, but he has also uninvited all the other Northern Ireland parties, even those with nothing to do with terrorism. He should draw a clear line between murderers and the rest.
Sadly, I used to think of what a great thing it would be to join the IRA and help them make bombs. It took growing up and seeing such conflicts from another view to change my mind. Granted the IRA does not target civillians per se but they still try to kill (police and bomb squad officers) for the sake of killing.
I am not ashamed of my Irish heritage, I just don’t understand how this kind of violence is helping their agenda. This is the same sort of thinking as in hyjacking 4 planes and flying them into buildings to make the US go away.
I have not heard much about the IRA in the last 10 years or so. I hope this means that hostilities are slowly (or quickly) going away.Please understand that the amount of news regarding the IRA isn’t the only determining factor in the state of ‘hostilities’. Most people and the industrial media conveniently forget that Unionist groups have been waging their campaigns despite two IRA cease-fires. They have also continued to press for marches through Catholic areas, and Holy Cross school in the Ardoyne was attacked repeatedly. The reports of collusion between some of these groups and the RUC resulted in the deaths of several persons, including Pat Finucane.
This does not mean that the IRA is a bunch of swell guys, or that they are ‘forced to do what they do’. But, ‘hostilities’in Ulster depend upon more than one group.
Blue Hen,
Very true. The loyalist paramilitaries such as UVF, UFF etc seem to be dominated by total psychopaths.
Paddy McGuinness once pointed out that the best way to win a peace prize is to kill a lot of people then promise to stop. We seem to be seeing a variation of that phenomenon in Northern Ireland. One of the troubling aspects of recent Northern Ireland politics is that moderate groups on both sides of the sectarian divide are being sidelined by extremist parties, some with links to paramilitary groups. Sinn Fein has replaced the constitutional, “soft nationalist� SDLP as the main party of the nationalist community. At the same time, the hard-line (but thankfully non-violent) DUP has replaced the moderate official Unionist party of David Trimble as the main party of unionism.
This is caused, in part, by what Alan Dershowitz identifies in his book, Why Terrorism Works, as an over willingness to analyse the “root causes� of terrorism. This analysis leads to validation then accommodation of terrorist demands. All of a sudden, the most vile terrorist becomes a “peacemaker�.
We witnessed this with both Arafat and Adams.
Frankly I suspect that any IRA difficulties at the moment have less to do with the sisters’ courage than with NORAID’s post Sept 11 revenue shortfalls.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2005 03 08 at 07:13 AM • permalink
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Sorry to rain on your parade, bu according to yesterday’s NY Times, the sisters are buying into Gerry Adams’ promise to “find the killers and bring them to justice.”
Maybe the old murderer and terrorist could get OJ to assist him in his quest.