" and do you really think that "Pakistanis" is entirely synonymous with "Islam"?"
Are you deliberately misunderstanding me?
No I do not - I think anybody who holds or supports such views is a racist - if the cap fits
I also believe that there is no difference in the outcome of both - bloody, violent, hate inspred violence and persecution.
"None of your bloody biznis whom I choose to vote for. Don't be so impertinent, Jim!"
I seem to remember your making an effort to find out what my politics were - or did I imagine that one?
I have never criticised "religion" other than to describe it as a superstition, which I believe it to be. I criticise the way religion is used to generate hate and violence, mainly by churches - no particular group comes away from that one with clean hands.
Setting a time limit and using a measuring stick on those abuses just excuses them, which it appears you are doing constantly.
The lady who died for want of an operation last year because "this is a Catholic country" is just as dead as the victims of a fanatic's suicide bomb - and the fact that Ireland has been a "Catholic country" for a very long time makes a body-count very difficult.
And please don't try hiding behind the wives of dead soldiers - there are plenty of victims on both sides - including those who were injured by rioters after the Woolwich incident, and the Asian man who was kicked to death and then burned because he took photographs of kids terrorising his family, in order to give them to the police,, or the many thousands of victims of Paki-bashing.... or any of the long-term victims of racial and sectarian abuse - there really isn't any high-ground in all this.
Jim Carroll