IRA terrorism is not comparable to Islamic terrorism, and shouldn’t be mentioned by any intelligent person in that context, except as a contrast. Note: all the contrasts listed below apply also (with only superficial differences) when comparing the terrorism of the Basques in Spain or the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka with the terrorism emanating out of the Muslim world.
Differences between IRA terrorism and Islamic terrorism:
Islamic terrorism: global
IRA terrorism: extremely localized—the IRA terrorists kept their violence “in the hood” and for the most part, the furthest afield they wreaked their violence was in London
Islamic terrorism: based in hatred of all non-Muslims, making it a global threat
IRA terrorism: based in specific localized political grievances (with a dash of anti-British hatred)
Islamic terrorism: Imperialistic, with designs on restoring a pan-Islamic Emperor (the Caliph) and conquering the world
IRA terrorism: based on limited political objectives
Islamic terrorism: eschatological, with an eye to transforming the world and making it ready for the Last Days
IRA terrorism: based on limited political objectives
Islamic terrorism: egregiously barbaric, including the beheading of children and shooting children in the back
IRA terrorism: less barbaric by a relevant degree
Islamic terrorism: part of a wider culture of pathological savagery that includes honor killings of women and girls; brutal clitorectomies of little girls; gang-rapes of women who either do not wear the proper Islamic garb or who are an affront by simply being Infidels; violent and hateful anti-Semitism; fascistic censorship of expression; fascistic threats of death to those who leave Islam; and much more.
IRA terrorism: part of a wider culture that contains far less pathological savagery than does Islam, and in fact is relatively normal and healthy by comparison.
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Excellent stuff. My nitpick is with the first word: you seem to have used "comparing" to mean "equating", or more precisely, "treating as morally equivalent and/or sharing an overwhelming number of similarities".
What you have done with your list of paired statements about Republican and Islamic terrorism is, in fact, nothing but a cogent and terse comparison.
Rehabilitate "compare"!
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