{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Both IRA campaigns of bombing and assassinations in Northern Ireland and American campaigns of bombing and assassinations...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/48399740341/", "html": "<p>Both IRA campaigns of bombing and assassinations in Northern Ireland and American campaigns of bombing and assassinations against abortionists were motivated by a strongly felt Catholic identity, and a sense of grievance that that identity was not properly recognized as the correct organizing principle of society.<br/><br/>Both could, coherently, be categorized as &ldquo;Catholic terrorism&rdquo;. That in America they generally aren&rsquo;t, and why they aren&rsquo;t, can be an interesting dynamic to explore in its own right. <br/><br/>That said, it would be damn weird and not very useful to understand the two campaigns as facets of the same single thing.</p>"}