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Terrorism comparison

Sat., June 25, 2016

I am a Catholic. So were members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who did kill Protestants in Northern Ireland - Protestants as disliked by the IRA as gays are by some coreligionists (including some Catholics as well as Muslims).

I suppose, by the same perverse logic that we hear now, and based on the radical Catholic terrorism of the IRA, I should be deported, though there is the problem of the country to which I should be deported. My mother was English, Irish and Scot, while my father’s family has been here since Jamestown. My land of origin is Minnesota.

Timothy Rolfe

Spokane

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