From: John Beckett 

Eeeww. Are you allowed to accurately describe islamists in today's PC world?

Notice also Adam's reply - totally dodged the issue with some glib comment.

John


Ellen K.  wrote in message
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> I don't know who all the other groups are/were, but "Anglo" and
> "Christian" are not synonymous.  The Baader Meinhof group were not
> Christians and would probably be insulted if you called them Christians,
> in view of Marx' statement that religion is the opiate of the masses.
> I'm not familiar enough with the IRA to know whether they consider
> themselves Christians, but everything I ever read about them indicated
> they were Irish nationalists as opposed to e.g. agitating for the
> practice of Catholicism over Protestantism.
>
> It is a fact that the Islamic terrorists claim their acts are religious
> in nature.  It is also a fact that Islamic clerics make statements
> supporting the terrorist acts, and are rarely -- if ever -- contradicted
> by other Islamic clerics.  These two facts are what make the public
> believe Islam is waging war on the non-Islamic world, particularly when
> some of the statements explicitly so state.
>
> On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:51:51 +0000, Adam
> <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote in
> message :
>
> >Does that include the IRA, UDA, UFF, IPLO, INLA, ETA, Baader Meinhof,
> >Red Brigades etc?

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