>During the main period of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland, back in the 70s, against the IRA the British govt. DID impose draconian new laws, Prevention of Terrorism Act, which included interment without habeus corpus for suspected terrorists. Many or all Irish were suspected and/or scrutinised when travelling to the UK mainland and back. So yes, in a sense, all Irish were "tarred with the same brush" as a precaution. They weren't muslims.

I mean that. I said prejudice is bad. It might about religion or nationatily or something another.

I hope irishs could understand muslims... :)