Talk:Responses to terrorism

Religious terrorism in Europe
I removed the statement:
 * Much of Europe has not experienced a domestic religious threat since the Wars of Religion.

because it is disputed by this mini-debate found in HTML comments:


 * Is this true: the IRA were a domestic religious terrorist threat, for example
 * The IRA were not religious, their goal was to force the British to leave Ireland
 * Not entirely true, the IRA tend to be extremely devout Catholics; there are no agnostics or atheists in their camp, also the PIRA cannot be delinked from their Catholic roots and the Catholic nationalist avatars that inspire them. What is going on in Northern Ireland is indeed a (mini) cultural war, but religion and culture are inextricably linked, so no whitewashes please. The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and especially its clerics have a basically avuncular relationship.

-- Beland 05:29, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree that this should be merged with counter-terrorism
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hearts and minds
From the article
 * ''Such activities empower citizens providing 'freedom from fear' and 'freedom from want'. This can take many forms including the provision of clean drinking water, education, vaccination programs, provision of food and shelter and protection from violence, military or otherwise.

Yes of course the major reason for IRA violence was because the citizens of Northern Ireland did not have "clean drinking water, education, vaccination programs, provision of food and shelter".

The Doctors who carries out the failed Glasgow airport bombing would not have carried out these attackes if only they had been given ""clean drinking water, education, vaccination programs, provision of food and shelter"

This is silly, much better to talk about propaganda programmes and hearts and minds strategies. --Philip Baird Shearer 09:39, 9 July 2007 (UTC)