For starters: The conflict in Ireland was NOT religious. It WAS geographical/political. The opposing parties should have really been identified as loyalists vs. rebels but the press found Catholic vs. Protestant the easier label.
Nonsense. Religion was very much part of it.
Z? you're fallacious argument would be akin to me telling someone that if racial prejudice in America is bona fide then why are there white missionaries working in Africa?
Racial prejudice in America is bona fide.
Not ALL Muslims are anti-West or anti non-Muslim.
No, that was the point I was making to demonstrate the flaw in the argument previous stated.
Many (most?) are.
Not in America.
But it's obvious that if a Muslim were hard core anti-American he wouldn't emigrate to America.
Not if he was on a mission to convert Americans to Islam.
Your White Christian missionary in Africa comes to mind....
As far as the alleged atrocities in Iraq. Whenever you get 100,000 young adults in one place, let alone 100,000 military minded young men in a foreign land fighting a lethal enemy, there's going to be crime. I imagine the number of murders, rapes, robberies ect. in Iraq as committed by our G.I.'s has been staggering. The same way the murder rate in Compton is staggering. That's no excuse, it's just the way things are. There's soldiers who commit crimes. Just as there's traders, cops, judges, imams and boy scouts who commit crimes.
I don't see a point. There isn't necessarily going to be a crime simply because of the numbers of young men.
The reason this is a story, an important story is the same as when a judge is found guilty of corruption, compared to a guy in the mail room.
Not only that, if this story were of USSR troops killing innocent Afghanistanis during their invasion of Afghanistan, people would say "Those evil commies" so why wouldn't those American soldiers be just as evil...or maybe they are actually worse because they are supposed to be the good guys rescuing the innocent Iraq people from the bad guys....
I continue to hold leadership mostly responsible for these events, though we know that leadership won't take the blame, nor will they do much to prevent it from happening in the future.