for those who are sure it is war on christians...

[ProblemAgain]

uhhhhh which christians?  and by who? seems like even without muslims, you got it going on...

Northern Ireland clashes injure 56 police, 2 civilians

Peter Morrison / AP

A Loyalist protester runs past a burning car during rioting in the center of Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Friday.

By Ian Graham and Sam Cage, Reuters

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Fifty-six police officers and two civilians were injured in protests in central Belfast, authorities said on Saturday, following the latest flare-up in violence stoked by tensions between Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic communities.

Many of the injuries were minor, but four officers were taken to the hospital after the clashes late on Friday, during which police fired plastic bullets and water cannons after being pelted with missiles for a second successive night.

Belfast remains divided between pro-British Protestants and Catholics who generally favor unification with Ireland, despite a 1998 peace and power-sharing deal that put an end to the worst of the so-called "troubles" in the British province.

"Last night's violence and attacks on police officers were shameful," Britain's minister for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers, said in a statement. "Disorder on the streets is a hugely regrettable step backwards."

Protestants had opposed a march on Friday evening along the city's main thoroughfare - Royal Avenue - by the nationalist side of the community, and when police moved in to clear them, they threw bricks, bottles and fireworks.

Burnt out cars and rubble littered central Belfast and shop fronts were damaged, as the cleanup work began on Saturday.

The Catholic parade, marking the anniversary of the 1971 introduction of internment without trial by British authorities, eventually had to pass along a different route.

Forty-two years ago, soldiers swept into Catholic districts and arrested more than 340 people as the British government sought to halt growing Irish Republican Army (IRA) violence aimed at extinguishing rule from London.

In all, more than 3,600 people died in a sectarian conflict that began in the late 1960s, including more than 1,000 members of the British security forces. More than 36,000 were injured.

Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters

[LoveLife&Laughter]

Is that still going on?  Good God...

[exedir]

Every summer, it is all a given as a part of partisan marching season.  And it is all about history, history remembered not for as much as what happened, as for what it meant to the generations that followed and the symbols that are used yet today, to remind one group as a matter of pride and to another as a matter of oppression.

[exedir]

And oh, yes, it is a matter of violence.  There is a class of people, mostly young men that see violence as more of a sport and a use of time than as a crime and witless activity.

Some call it hooliganism, others what would have been called at one-time skin head but it is what just happens on the streets with a cause, however, minor, and it is also a part of drinking, a lot, on an afternoon where there is nothing else to do.  It happens in Ireland, Scotland and England and other parts of the continent and it has happened for generations, and will happen for generations to come.

[ProblemAgain]

why lands sake, that could also describe miami, philadelphia or essentially any city anywhere. and there you have the reasons the extremists try to recruit the young (before they wise up) and why some people point to problems and deem them to be endemic to an area because of 'those people's' race, ethnicity, religion, politics etc etc....generally it would be wiser to ascribe many problems to too much youthful testosterone and too few brain cells hand in hand with a lack of mature wisdom and a failure to foresee the future

[LoveLife&Laughter]

I'm willing to bet it ain't the youg'ns; I bet it's the old white men.