A comparison is often made is saying Islamist and Irish terrorism are similar.
Far be it from me to defend people of violence on either side of the Northern Irish sectarian divide, but neither party there broadcasts video messages with religious banners behind them. They act in the namer of Nationalism or Unionism under the banner of Irish tricolour or Union flag. They fight in the name of politics not religion. They are not given to suicide missions (except by hunger strikes for a time). By and large they gave warnings and did not bomb their own people.
I hesitate to draw this conclusion, but comparing them with the Islamists I see some mitigating Christian influence among the men of violence from N Ireland.
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