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""Tens of thousands of innocent Muslims""?  Jaysus gimme a puff of whatever you are smoking.  Either it's good stuff or I need a new calculator.  No-one has killed tens of thousands of ANYBODY!  Need I remind you that it was rhetoric which started the Tan war and the Civil War?   Plus all the actions of the various bodies calling themselves the IRA since 1922 and who all claim descent from 1st Dail?   Isn't that what they all start out with ""we are the legitimate successors of Dail Eireann""?  Need I also remind you that on the day of 9/11 it was only the grounding of all transatlantic flights which prevented terrorists detonating devices on US airliners heading out of Great Britain?   For the record, I abhor violence in any shape or form but am realistic enough to know that wars happen.  Even Irish troops have killed people in modern conflicts you know, and been killed themselves.  Look up Operation Rum Punch.  As for Irish Republicans I can condemn them just as easily as I can condemn rabid Loyalists.   We were born into the Realpolitik of Irish affairs, that doesn't mean to say we have to repeat the mistakes of previous generations by perpetuating the hatred and sectarianism which partition accentuates.   There are times when I wish the Civil War had been between the North and South, because no matter who feckin won at least it would all be over now and we'd have learned our lesson - then again, maybe not, because the Irish (north and south) are that imaginative that they'd soon find another reason to start it all over again.  Something along the lines of you calling the Briish guys who don't share your views ""Nationalists"" which you well know irritates them because of its racist connotations  "