September 20, 2006
Muslims in Hamas-controlled Gaza have formed an ad hoc terrorist group promising to attack Christian targets to avenge the Pope’s choice of a quotation insinuating that Islam is prone to violence.
Man, I'm cringing at the keyboard offering this idea, but, here goes.
Enlist the IRA.
A terrorist is a terrorist, and we despise them all.
However, if the IRA is as devoted to their Catholicism as they claim to be, then they should have no problem issuing threats of tit-for-tat concerning the current Islamoseething against the Pope.
And the Muslims, I believe, would take them, unlike us, very seriously. After all, many IRA terrorists learned their craft in the Bekaa Valley.
You would think that they'd be at the forefront of the backlash, marching down the streets of Dublin burning Mohammed in effigy and tossing Molotov cocktails at mosques.
Hell, it's not like we haven't allied ourselves with odious people before, think Stalin. Nor are we shying away from odious regimes now, think Saudi Arabia.
So enlisting the IRA to combat terrorists with terrorism, no, the threat of future terrorism, may not be such a bad idea. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
And, if I were really that naive, I'd think that any of this was plausible. But hey, one can contemplate, right?
I call this my Dirty Dozen scenario.
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Posted by: bubbe at September 20, 2006 04:08 AM (vZBQO)
Posted by: Paul Moore at September 20, 2006 06:06 AM (bW9IA)
Posted by: Judith at September 20, 2006 06:16 AM (efcDp)
And maybe it's just early for me, but does anyone see the staggering irony in the situation? A terrorist group that was set up to avenge accusations or insinuations of violence. That's rich.
Posted by: shank at September 20, 2006 08:04 AM (+H1yK)
Posted by: Last gasp Larry at September 20, 2006 08:15 AM (Dd86v)
It is another example of a group of people who cannot forget the past 800 years and move into the future. Of course the Brits abck then were pretty hard on Irish Catholics. Seems the Anglicans were into conversion by the sword and all that. But in this case it was intended to be a pacification method. There again it was religion being used as a front for political reasons.
Posted by: SeeMonk at September 20, 2006 08:18 AM (7teJ9)
Posted by: BGB at September 20, 2006 09:13 AM (fc8V6)
So perhaps the IRA should have mobilized there many years ago, if they were serious about religion. Alas, I believe they are not...they just are terrorists.
Gerry Adams was recently in "palestine" advising Hamas. I found it on Google. So the IRA is not going to be helpful.
Posted by: funky chicken at September 20, 2006 09:17 AM (EZWY4)
Posted by: The Rogue Jew at September 20, 2006 09:50 AM (OKjDG)
Posted by: The Rogue Jew at September 20, 2006 09:50 AM (OKjDG)
screw 'em
Posted by: jdubious at September 20, 2006 09:52 AM (G7s9a)
screw 'em
Posted by: jdubious at September 20, 2006 09:56 AM (G7s9a)
They've also become crazy international socialists. How international socialism creates a United Republic of Ireland I do not know, but whatever. (This is why you get a billion IRA splinter groups. Many of them look at Gerry et al have, well, abandoned 'the cause' to be famous worldwide politicians. Or soemthing).
Either way, they (PIRA) basically became 'cause heads' and drug runners. And anti-American. Which also makes little sense.
Posted by: Spade at September 20, 2006 10:07 AM (NpnyQ)
My Irish Catholic brothers and sisters would know what to do with these Comic Book Death Cult followers.
As I've said before, what the Pope should have said about his remarks..."I guess you moron's didn't get the memo. The Cafeteria is Closed."
RR
Posted by: RegularRon at September 20, 2006 11:16 AM (qZJTO)
Now while the ball is rolling, how bout we send all of our street gang thugs and illegal lawn mowers/cleaning ladies over, to you know, "re-populate" the area...
Posted by: haywood jablowmi at September 20, 2006 11:17 AM (VUmVc)
Plus basic racketeering like extortion/protection rackets, prostitution, drugs &tc.
Posted by: Consul-At-Arms at September 20, 2006 11:26 AM (B+qrE)
The IRA are a bunch of thugs that are just as bad as the terrorist from the middle east. It is an insult to Britain that the IRA could even be considered as "helping" us!
Also, the IRA dont give a toss about religion as such, its all about having a United Ireland ... but Ulster will never fall!
Posted by: DaBud at September 20, 2006 12:21 PM (kEoz3)
Besides, like Vinnie said, it's not like we havn't stooped before. The name Lucky Luciano ring any bells? Ahhh, those were the days...
Posted by: Mike the Marine at September 20, 2006 12:57 PM (UTFN5)
No more insulting to decent people than British forces working with Loyalist terrorist groups.
Posted by: Spade at September 20, 2006 02:21 PM (NpnyQ)
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 20, 2006 08:40 PM (v3I+x)
One thing you can count on is the Catholics will not get violent. First the child molesting priests now butts up to the muslims. This is the end of the Catholic Church.
Those that claim Islam will not spread in South and Central American because they are Catholic countries can now put that arguement away. They will change from Catholic to muslim as quick as they changed from their sun gods to Catholic.
Example: Venesuela. A Catholic country.
Posted by: greyrooster at September 21, 2006 06:01 AM (tbyCT)
Posted by: pst314 at September 21, 2006 08:40 AM (OA547)
Hey, fuck you both.
True fact, most atheists are queers, or most queers are atheists. Go ahead, defend your Church.
Bartender get me a beer.
Posted by: Brad at September 21, 2006 08:58 PM (Ignlt)
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