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Soccer Mob Beats Catholic to Death in N. Ireland

Protestant fans were celebrating a victory

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(Newser) – A mob of Protestant soccer fans beat a Catholic man to death last night in Northern Ireland, the Belfast Telegraph reports. After a victory by Scotland’s Glasgow Rangers, as many as 70 fans drove to the Catholic section of the town of Coleraine, where they “literally attacked the first person they came across,” a witness tells the AP.

Kevin McDaid, a 49-year-old father of four, was beaten on his doorstep as he tried to defend a neighbor from the mob, his son tells the Telegraph. “The people that did this are just thugs and animals. I hope they are caught,” he said. A local legislator condemned the violence as “raw sectarian hatred.”

Flowers mark the scene of last night's violence in Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
Flowers mark the scene of last night's violence in Coleraine, Northern Ireland.   (AP Photo)
This is an undated photo of Kevin McDaid, 49, beaten to death last night at the hands of militant Protestant supporters of a Scottish soccer.
This is an undated photo of Kevin McDaid, 49, beaten to death last night at the hands of militant Protestant supporters of a Scottish soccer.   (AP Photo)
Peter Neill, who was with Kevin McDaid when they were attacked last night, surveys the scene of the murder in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, today.
Peter Neill, who was with Kevin McDaid when they were attacked last night, surveys the scene of the murder in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, today.   (AP Photo)
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TerrifiedCitizen
May 25, 09 3:12 PM CDT
More proof that what Big Religion has been teaching its adherents is not remotely close to what the bible teaches... Even from the pulpit these days, we have priests and preachers teaching that the bible is nothing more than a fairy tale... so how can people be expected to believe its principles are useful to practice? "I give you a new command. Love one another. You must love one another, just as I have loved you." John 13:34 (New International Reader's Version) Reply
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shonangreg
May 25, 09 4:25 PM CDT
We are a tribal, territorial species. We kill each other based on *divisions* whether by race, religion, gang, sports team, or class. Religion is not the cause here, though many religions' literalism is a big blind spot that retards rational consideration of humanity's big picture.
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SPH
May 25, 09 5:10 PM CDT
I fail to understand that your interpretation of the Biblical fairy tale is somehow more valid than than these fools....It is all BS.....
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freethemall
May 25, 09 5:40 PM CDT
"If they brother,the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other Gods... thou shalt surely kill him, thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.... ( Deuteronomy 13:6,7,8 ) The Bible certainly teaches that who follow the wrong religion should be put to death.
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shonangreg
May 25, 09 8:57 PM CDT
SPH, who are you addressing? I guess it is me. People dotn't kill each other over fairy tales. I don't even understand "validity" in relation to religions or fairy tales. My position is that literalism is the problem -- ascribing a "truth" value to the tenets of a religion. All religion can be taken metaphorically from my perspective. Then no one can no longer say, "My religion tells me that I am right and you are wrong."
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