an open letter to Robert Spencer of the Jihadwatch website.

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From: JH
Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 10:15 PM
Subject: from JH in Ireland
To: Robert Spencer

Morning Roberto.

The Joshua Winston article on your website today got my attention because it gave long overdue focus to the gangland mobster nature of the thriving thieving murdering racketeering ethno mafia which is the IRA and its various factions as well as to the links between current IRA groupings and Jihadists. Very relevant and very timely analysis. I think I remember sending you an email a few years ago about the clear links between the Rah and the Jihadis amd about how significant this symbiosis between mafia criminality and Islamic terrorism was becoming for me personally and for the world.. Memory is such a tricky thing in these matters as you are aware, it's difficult to be sure.

I would suggest though that your correspondent's linking of these IRA mafias and their criminal competitors  to Catholicism and Protestantism was misleading and untrue although they do leech off Protestant and Catholic communities in the same way that the Chinese Triads might be said to leech off Chinese Buddhist communities. If you talk to an IRA man or a supposed Protestant UDA man, you quickly realise that they are not quarreling about the real presence of God in the Eucharist or about the special honour reserved for the Blessed Virgin Mary in the ancient church or about the primacy of the Pope among Christian leaders or even about Martin Luther's sometimes salient critiques in the 95 theses. Their quarrel is about gangland turf. And Catholics and Protestants live on that turf so the hijacking and manipulation of those communities is for mobsters of the Rah and the supposed mobsters of the supposedly still existent UDA a military objective.

People like you shouldn't help them do it.

I would note that no one calls the Chinese Triads Buddhists, Bob because no one is trying to frivolously discredit Buddhism.. Is your correspondent perhaps a tad frivolously trying to take a side swipe at Catholicism? Forgive me. I'm sensitive about these things.

I remember the late great Dan Rather reading the news on American television thirty years ago and referring with lazy lefitst incompetence (and something approaching mendacious glee) to "the Catholic IRA."  It's always nice for someone inherently leftistly hostile to religion to claim the IRA is Catholic and its opponents are Protestants and that religions cause all the war in the world. It's a sloppy error only possible if one doesn't know any IRA men, and one chooses to ignore the definitive Soviet era causalities and underpinnings of the organisation under consideration and if one further chooses to ignore the key role for the past hundred years of atheistic communism in fomenting revolutionary wars of extirpation on every continent.

It is a rum reflection that those great champions of laicised atheism, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler, Lenin and Stalin have singly and together killed, raped, tortured and violated more human beings (and continue to do so through their ideological offspring) and more nations than any religion or purportedly religiously motivated grouping.

I put it to you Bob old pal that Dan Rather thirty years ago and you guys today aren't doing your homework when you call the IRA Catholic.  You're simplifying your soundbites down to the level of untruth. Here is the news. The IRA is a Marxian atheistic drug dealing, people trafficking, child abusing mafia,, incepted and farmed in its modern incarnation by Soviet Russia, and which since its Soviet era glory days has had operational links with Jihadists.

The IRA is Catholic only in the sense that Chairman Mao (old pal of yours Bob?) was Buddhist, Joe Stalin was Eastern Orthodox, and Adolf Hitler was Catholic, that is to say, not at all.

Besties.

James Healy