Boston Irish vs Dearborn Moslem:
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Submitted by massachusetts republican (United States), Aug 10, 2006 at 22:32

Boston Irish vs Dearborn Moslem:

…Even at its height in the early to late 70s financial and logistical support was generally confined to a small, shadowy, dangerous group with the larger community simply voicing support. But it was always wise not to wear a Union Jack shirt in to the local Southie watering hole to watch a Celtics game.

But as I said that is a long gone era. You see the Irish of Boston became disillusioned and disgusted at the violence. And so ended mass popular support of the IRA. And now thank GOD the violence appears to be at an end. However decades of trust building remain.

Now lets look at Dearborn and Hezbollah.
Dearborn is ground zero for American Moslems as it were. And it is here that many parallels can be drawn. American Muslims see Israel as a fake nation and Jews as squatters on Moslem land. They see Hezbollah, Hamas, the PLO, Islamic-Jihad etc as freedom fighters trying to liberate their ancestral homeland…

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