Religious discrimination in Ireland

national | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis

Thursday February 14, 2008 18:22

by Irish Nationalist

The truth about religious discrimination in Ireland.

Some people claim that Ireland is guilty of religious "apartheid", as if there were separate beaches for people of different faiths - the apartheid regieme in South Africa had separate beaches for people of different races.

However, the truth is quite different. Yes, there are religious schools, but that is a result of tolerance. Demanding these schools be closed is intolerant.

In fact, there is an industry devoted to persuading Irish people that they are so bigoted in terms of religion that they should be deeply ashamed of themselves. It is based, not surprisingly, in Dublin 4, home of the elite.

Catholicism is denigrated as a "gutter religion" by those in Dublin 4, while the nationalists of the north are told they are "intolerant" for not allowing the Orange Order to march through neighbourhoods.

Some of those Dublin 4 types screaming "intolerance" take their cue from the American Civil Liberties Union, an organisation with a
history of representing neo-Nazis and the KKK.

Others take their cue from Richard Dawkins, a scion of the British Establishment who has written about Northern Ireland as if religion was the only cause.

It is clear that they have no interest in working class Irish people.