[Miss Marple]

Do you think the President should condemn Catholicism because 99.9% of the IRA members are Catholic?

[veronica]

I'm still waiting for you to tell me which other Presidents have issued Ramadan greetings.

It's a matter of numbers. What percentage of Catholics does the IRA represent, as opposed to the percentage of Muslims that the terrorist cells represent? How many Catholics celebrated in the streets on 9-11 vs. how many Arabs/Muslims did? It's been two years since 9-11. Bush has issued two Ramadan greetings and I don't know how many Islam is peace statements. And yet, anti-Americanism and anti-semitism among Arabs/Muslims is more, not less, pervasive.

[BenR2]

Do you think the President should condemn Catholicism because 99.9% of the IRA members are Catholic?

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This is an idiotic statement. There is no state-sponsorship of IRA terror. There is no wide-spread rioting in the streets of Catholic countries in support of IRA terror. There are very few countries whose Governments are Catholic-state-church-sponsored.

Everyone knows that the IRA are about as "Catholic" as the Italian "mob."

[B Knotts]

If we Catholics were fighting religious wars all over the world, oppressing, killing and enslaving those of other religions, supporting terrorism financially and morally, punishing apostates with the death penalty and expressing open anti-Semitism, yes, I'd hope he'd condemn us.

[Allan]

Do you think the President should condemn Catholicism because 99.9% of the IRA members are Catholic?

What percentage of the world's Catholics supports the IRA?

What percentage of the world's Moslems supports the terrorists?

How many of the gathered leaders of Moslem nations condemned Mahathir's recent comments?

[Publius6961]

Do you think the President should condemn Catholicism because 99.9% of the IRA members are Catholic?

Do you?

That is irrational, nonsensical, a non-sequitur and baffling.

Catholics are not blowing up skyscrapers in the US.
Blowing up schoolbuses in Israel.
Blowing up airliners full of people over Scotland.
Massacreing non muslims in East Timor...

Most rational people can make the connection.
So long as the sandmaggots limit their criminal savage primitive behavior at home among themsleves, I couldn't care less.