re: Religious fanaticism, Islam and the IRA

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This started 400 years before Henry was born. It began back in the 12th century when England invaded Ireland. The religious divide became evident in the 16th century but the conflict was centuries old by then.

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It sounds like you're agreeing with me that the roots of the conflict are religiously based. We can quibble about how far it goes back, but without religion, this particular conflict wouldn't have happened.