[Osx-nutters] jesus camp

[David Cake]

At 1:14 PM +0100 19/9/06, guy hammond wrote:
>That is true, however terrorists whose religion is unrelated to their cause
>must be considered differently to terrorists whose sole (or at least, major)
>motivation is their religion.

	Why?
	Its about ideology. Some ideologies have religion at their 
core, but I'm not sure why that makes them special.

>E.g. in Northern Ireland the IRA happened to be Catholics and the Loyalists
>happened to be Protestants - but they weren't fighting over whose
>interpretation of the Bible was correct, nor were they interested in
>converting anyone (and they weren't into suicide either). It was (mostly)
>about territory, plain and simple, with little bits of ethnicity and crime
>thrown in for good measure.

	 And this just looks desperate - you want to create a special 
category of 'religious terrorist', and then exclude all of Northern 
Irelands troubles?
	Palestinian terrorists, for example, have quite a bit in 
common with the Tamil Tigers in terms of tactics and concern about 
issues of political self-determination etc, and include a range of 
religions.
	Cheers
		David