Europe hates the bourgeoisie: Europe thinks like Mary Robinson, America thinks like Churchill

The Irish Independent ^ | September 8th 2002 | Eoghan Harris

[Audit_Jesse]

Heh, somehow I can't see the Irish becoming Muslim. Not gonna happen without a fight anyway.

[livius]

Nature abhors a vacuum. After the recent clerical sex scandals in the Church in Ireland, churchgoing has apparently dropped off very, very steeply. Combine that with the likes of Mary Robinson (your basic non-Catholic Catholic), and I'd say that the Irish may be perfectly willing to accept something that offered them some structure, no matter how crazed.

That said, I don't think the Irish would necessarily be first on the Muslim sign-up list. This dubious honor may go to France.

[col kurz]

Two groups, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Algerian GIA openly operate in south Dublin. Their purpose is to support Al Qaeda by manufacturing and selling fake passports, ID and credit cards as well as running a bogus asylum racket. Most members have asylum seeker status, receiving housing benefits and cash from the Irish Government. Many were involved in bin Laden's "Mercy International Relief Agency" run out of an apartment in the Donnybrook suburb of Dublin. After the failure of the Millennium bomb plot, the FBI and RCMP tracked one of the main actors, Hamid Aich, back to Dublin. Much arm twisting ensued after which the Garda raided Aich's safehouse, arresting Aich and five others, all released within 24 hours (they had committed no crime on Irish soil), Aich split for Afganistan. The FBI was reproached for harrassing innocent asylum seekers, ah, Captain Louis Renault!! If you can afford the price you may become a legal Irish passport holder, for a wee bit extra, an Irish citizen (instantly). As did Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, bin Laden's brother-in-law and nine Saudi "associates", bought from the Taoiseach (PM) himself, Charlie Haughey, in 1991. While the 9/11 terrorists were learning to fly in the U.S. four Middle Eastern men applied for flight training at Cammore airport in Galway. Irish officials will not release the identities of the student pilots nor of the Saudi, I mean Irish "associates". Ireland, which I love dearly, has become a national safehouse, R&R camp etc. for a large cast of bad characters, no fault of the Garda Special Branch but of the policies of a leftist, anti-American (and British) ruling elite supported by a Marxist media. God Help Ireland!!