Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
Not by that far. I'm willing to bet that if you threw money at the IRA, their resolve would disappear. Money is the great equalizer. It has more power and influence than any god. Be that god catholic, protestant or muslim. It's too bad that the IRA isn't treated with the same disgust and disrespect that any non christian sect would be treated. But, I guess that shows the opinion of christians vs. other christians in relation to non-christian sects.
i disagree...the IRA as an organisation were not just terrorists...they also ran very lucrative protection rackets and controlled most of the drug trade in both northern ireland and the republic of ireland.
they also recieved a lot of funding from irish american sources
as for islamic terrorists....take osama bin laden...he was a multi millionaire before he was a terrorist....it kind of does damage to the argument that poverty is the driving force behind terrorism
i also think the level of disgust at the actions of the IRA when compared to al qaeda is that the IRA conducted their attacks very differently than al qaeda...going as far as giving their infamous "coded warnings" before attacks...al qaeda also killed more people in a single attack on 9/11 than the IRA did throughout their entire campaign