I read your comment and could apply the exact same thing to Christianity. The problems you described are not exclusive to Islam, so it seems very short sighted to blame their prophet.<p>It does have something to do with religion, but only because that is being used as _motivation_ to do bad things which isn&#x27;t inherit to just Islam. I mean, Klu Klux Klan<p>&gt; Klan members had an explicitly Christian terrorist ideology, basing their beliefs in
&gt; part on a &quot;religious foundation&quot; in Christianity. The goals of the KKK included,
&gt; from an early time onward, an intent to &quot;reestablish Protestant Christian values in
&gt; America by any means possible&quot;, and they believed that &quot;Jesus was the first Klansman.&quot;<p>What this is about is radical _people_ finding whatever motivation they can do to force _their own views_ onto the world.