| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:why pick on muslims | |
| Posted by: | Andy Jones | |
| Date/Time: | 23/05/13 20:53:00 |
| 'The IRA and its' predecessor organisations were 100% Catholic, of this there is no doubt.' I'm afraid there is. Many of the predecessor organisations were founded by Protestants like Wolf Tone. In the early part of the 20th Century some of the most prominent members of the Irish Republican movement were Protestant for instance Erskine Childers and Roger Casement. The IRA was always careful to be non-denominational and did have Protestant members right up to the end of the conflict. The Irish flag is meant to signify peace between the green and the orange i.e. that all religions had a stake in an independent Ireland. The IRA was a nationalist organisation that happened to come from a predominantly Catholic country so its membership was largely from that part of the community but it cannot be said that it was a Catholic organisation following Catholic aims. Many of its senior members were not Catholic for instance Martin McGuinness who was an atheist. The INLA was avowedly anti-clerical and hostile to the Catholic Church. The Church was uniformly against an armed struggle even during the War of Independence and as an institution was indifferent to who had control of Ireland. |