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Article: Sectarianism is still alive and kicking in our society ; The murder of Kevin McDaid proves sectarianism still poisons Northern Ireland society. It is time it was faced and ended, writes Duncan Morrow, chief executive of the Community Relations Council
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- June 3, 2009
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THE murder of Kevin McDaid was a lynch-mob killing -- a planned
attack on 'Catholics' by a murderous crowd without thought for the
human costs or consequences.
As in any hate crime, human beings were reduced to the value of
some hated symbol -- in this case football tops, colours, addresses
and labels.
All that mattered to the murderers in The Heights area of
Coleraine was that Kevin McDaid was one of 'them'.
Sometimes sectarianism can be denied -- this time there can be no
doubting that the 'motive' for murder was a hatred of others so deep
that the lives of their victims were treated as secondary.
In the twisted logic of hatred, the McDaids were some sort of
'legitimate target', ...