Paramount Pictures - Filmography. Join IMDb Pro for more details! Griffith, Director: The Birth of a Nation. David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob 'Roaring Jake' Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and. Sir Bob Geldof has criticised the leaders of the 1916 Irish Easter Rising for using tactics similar to those of jihadi suicide bombers. Bob Geldof criticises Easter Rising leaders for using tactics similar to jihadi suicide bombers. Sir Bob Geldof has criticised the leaders of the 1. Irish Easter Rising for using tactics similar to those of jihadi suicide bombers. The star argues the ringleaders of the insurrection who seized the Post Office building in Dublin martyred themselves in a bid to inspire others to take up arms. His comments, in an exclusive interview in Event magazine with today's Mail on Sunday, will prove controversial in the Irish Republic, which is commemorating the 1. British rule. Sir Bob Geldof has criticised the leaders of the 1. Irish Easter Rising for using tactics similar to those of jihadi suicide bombers. Dublin- born Geldof claims there is little difference between the rebels' mindset and the warped ideology behind atrocities such as last week's massacre of 7. Pakistan. He says: 'They . What's admirable about that, if you also don't admire the guy who's just walked into Pakistan and blown up 7. Christian carnival in Lahore? What's the difference?'People say, 'That's outrageous, it's not the same thing.' Excuse me?'Asked if the modern Islamic suicide bomber morally resembles the Irish rebel in the Post Office, he agrees, saying: 'It does.'Although the Irish insurrection – which led to the death of almost 5. Irish independence. But Geldof says there has been a tendency to mythologise those whose actions would subsequently inspire The Troubles. He says: 'You dignify it by saying it was martyrdom. If it's grievous mortal sin to commit suicide, why is it a lesser sin to hurl yourself upon a willing bayonet? Why is that a martyrdom? So much rests on this myth. How many murders have been sanctioned in its name? F*** off!'Geldof says the real hero of the struggle for independence was the Irish poet W. Yeats whose words fostered the dream of a free Ireland. The star (pictured with George Osborne in 2. Post Office building in Dublin martyred themselves in a bid to inspire others to take up arms. Geldof, who has made a BBC4 documentary about Yeats, says: 'Every place has a creation myth. Yeats said to the Irish, 'This is who you are. You are noble.' The man sang the nation into being.'Geldof says organisations such as IS and Al Qaeda are the 'Mc. Donald's of terrorism' because they use a franchise system, and that he has never known the world to be so on the brink of 'something terrible'. He says he is passionately in favour of staying in the EU because it is one of the best guarantees of peace. A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats is on BBC4 on Sunday at 9pm.
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