re: Religious fanaticism, Islam and the IRA

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but they are just as convinced that what's taking place in the north amounts to little more than an occupation by a foreign army.

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Well of course the people in N Ireland will be more extreme. But when half the population sees themselves as British/Irish in the six counties its just a mess.

Its also sad that the neighborhoods of Catholic and Protestant have to be separated by fences looking like a war zone. And the police still get fricked with even though they are not the British Army.