IRA v ISIS

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So the IRA were responsible for killing 2000 british people, far more than ISIS have killed (brits that is) but for some reason we never had people saying 'all the irish community must stand up and publicly deplore such behaviour'... it never happened. No one ever called for us to invade or bomb Ireland either to fix the problem...

So how come when ISIS kill people (most of whom aren't even brits) everyone says that the entire muslim community should unite and publicly criticise such behaviour ? Plus lots of people want us to invade and bomb them as well.

Same goes for Boko Haram who have supposedly killed far more than ISIS, no one ever says we need to invade parts of Africa to sort it out.

It's like one rule for the middle east, another for everywhere else.

 

[zophiel]

oil

 

[Mynight]

Do we really need yet another thread?

 

[Josh]

Do we really need yet another thread?

 

[Richdog]

Do we really need yet another thread?

Give the OP a break, this was probably some kind of eureka moment for him, the accumulated result of days of furious brain activity.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

Came in expecting news about how a fight between the two had started am disappoint

 

[chunk]

Do we really need yet another thread?

Dunno, i visit this forum maybe once every couple of months so i wouldn't have a clue how popular ISIS threads are.

 

[KillBoY_UK]

IRA goals where more political and mainly only to do with matters inside the UK

ISIS's goals are more idealogical, fanatical, radical, violent/brutal and world wide

 

[LOMS]

Add to that the fact that the absolute majority of ISIS victims are Muslims and/or Arabs themselves..

 

[chunk]

Came in expecting news about how a fight between the two had started am disappoint

Maybe they should make a show like celeb deathmatch but for terrorist groups.

 

[Mynight]

Dunno, i visit this forum maybe once every couple of months so i wouldn't have a clue how popular ISIS threads are.

There's a 4000+ posts long one on the first page.

Sorry didn't mean to be rude but even I'm bored of Islam threads at the moment.

 

[GravyMonster]

IRA goals where more political and mainly only to do with matters inside the UK

ISIS's goals are more idealogical, fanatical, radical, violent/brutal and world wide

There you go bringing common sense in to a thread which has no place for it

 

[chunk]

IRA goals where more political and mainly only to do with matters inside the UK

ISIS's goals are more idealogical, fanatical, radical, violent/brutal and world wide

i sort of see your point but its a bit flawed as politics is ideologic and the IRA were fanatical, they killed 2000 brits trying to make their point...which is pretty violent and brutal.

 

[KillBoY_UK]

i sort of see your point but its a bit flawed as politics is ideologic and the IRA were fanatical, they killed 2000 brits trying to make their point...which is pretty violent and brutal.

hence the "more" part

 

[chief barker]

i sort of see your point but its a bit flawed as politics is ideologic and the IRA were fanatical, they killed 2000 brits trying to make their point...which is pretty violent and brutal.

Over a long period of time.

 

[Raumarik]

The media has worked hard to portray anyone of the Muslim faith as halfway to being a terrorist. They forget that being Muslim is a bit like being a Christian, there are many, many different sub-faiths and only a tiny percentage are terrorists/extremists (much like not all people living in NI were members of the IRA etc).

 

[Gerard]

i sort of see your point but its a bit flawed as politics is ideologic and the IRA were fanatical, they killed 2000 brits trying to make their point...which is pretty violent and brutal.

If the IRA had wanted to kill more brits as you put it then they would never phoned in bomb warnings. Wasn't always the case but the fact remains the kill count would have been much higher if they hadn't.

 

[jsmoke]

To be honest I don't think the British government really knew what it was getting into in NI. The army initially though they would be there for a couple of weeks on some crowd control support. So they were partly trying to learn knew strategies as things progressed. Also ISIS are regarded a much bigger problem, also Iraq/Syria are sovereign states thousands of miles away whereas NI was regarded as being sovereign to the UK and right on it's doorstep..

 

[chunk]

Over a long period of time.

yes, I'm willing to bet over the same period of time ISIS will have killed far less brits.

and if everyone is so concerned about the local populations of iraq and syria wellbeing why do they want to bomb the very towns in which these people live ?

Boko Haram killed 2000 people in 1 week during the Charlie Hebdo mess, no one cared or is calling for us to bomb and invade parts of Africa...

 

[Hagar]

Personally I think Ira is the better name, Isis sounds so girly.