re: #51 SanFranciscoZionist
I don’t think the analogy works. Al Qaeda’s agenda is, among other things, Islamic, the IRA doesn’t really give a damn if anyone else is Catholic.
Back when I was a kid (and the Kingston Trio even made a song about the IRA), I thought it was a Catholic-Protestant thing, which was fighting for “Irish Independence”, e.g. against the Church of England.