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To: wideawake
Cyprus was ethnically cleansed by secular Turkish nationalists. It's only recently that Islamic radicalism has become a phenomenon on Cyprus.

I am sure the Christians murdered and displaced and the chruches destroyed will appreciate the difference...

10 posted on 07/19/2006 10:20:47 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: 2banana
I am sure the Christians murdered and displaced and the chruches destroyed will appreciate the difference...

The facts are the facts.

The Cypriot wars were wars between secular Greek nationalists and invading secular Turkish nationalists.

Hezbollah and the Republican People's Party are two very different entities who fight with different tactics and with different goals.

Conflating differnt historical phenomena to score a rhetorical point may be convenient, but it isn't all that useful.

12 posted on 07/19/2006 10:29:01 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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