To that end, I can see alot of benefit to “outlawing” (both illegal and unlawful) corporations from doing anything else but make money. No politcal speech, no charity.

The ruse is that such non business related activities boosts their image and therefore sales, but I don’t buy it.

“Must apologise for replying so far down the comments… but Lauren your irking me.

Is the corporation PEPSI an irish individual? How about McDonalds?

So to say ‘American’ is more apt than to say Irish American since I’m sure most of those working for Pepsi Co aren’t Irish?”

Pepsico and McDonalds are corporations which, like many others, engage in charitable giving. Neither the stockholders nor the employees of those corporations ever knowingly, explicitly donated money to Gerry and his merry band of murderers. What they did was contribute money to one or another ostensibly legitimate Catholic charities which, unbeknownst to many of their benefactors, were actually funnelling some of that money to the IRA.

The only people in America who knowingly, deliberately sent money to the IRA were Irish-descended Americans and Irish nationals living here, who I lumped together as ‘the Irish’. Nobody else here has any credible motivation to do so, as I obliquely alluded to in my mention of various ethnicities who don’t have a dog in that particular fight…

Basically, the same view that most people seem to have of their religion. Nice to have a building to hold the occasional ceremony in, but other than that just another thing in life that is trying to steal your time and money.

There seems to be a small micro-trend in the UK of radical Muslim’s being harvested from the kid of moderate Muslims. Basically, the parents came to the UK, did everything to fit in, the kids grew up constantly told to work and ‘act British’ then when they hit teenage hood they want to rebel, so instead of becoming punk rockers they join radical Islam. Unfortunately the ones that blow themselves up miss the bit when they realize they were being pillocks and that life isn’t that clear cut.

In History, examples exist of Muslims offering religious minorities more freedom within their states than said minorities had elsewhere. Course, that was hundreds of years ago and before the Arab Muslim world became inflamed over Israel.

What is the basic leaning of “moderate Muslims?” Is it freedom loving ecumenicalism that has been hijacked, or is it one religion for all that only has its head down while they are a minority?

tempus fugit.

Just another proof that these “pro-life” organizations should be listed among the other terrorist organizations.

http://tinyurl.com/2sba4j

aren’t the majority of Indians Hindu? *coff*

If the price to pay for that is the occasional youths being lead astray and tricked into doing something stupid, then so be it. If it isn’t Islam or the Irish there is surely someone else who’d have a go…. there is always someone who wants to bomb us…. although fortunately our counsins across the Atlantic are quickly taking the heat off of us…