There are always people who will claim a religious reason for committing violent acts - have been for centuries. Judging an entire religion on the acts of a few people is really stupid. Most of the world's religions subscribe to a non-violent theology, yet most of the violent acts committed are by so-called members of these religions. I was in IRaq for a year. I saw a lot more selfish and violence prone Muslims than anything else. Hell, even some villagers said they could tell that our chaplain was Catholic because when he brought gifts to the village, he thought of everybody, not just the Christians. Has this led me to the conclusion that Muslims have a tendency towards violence? Not really. I understand that a person's actions are based on a lot more than religious teachings. Some people are just really fucked in the head. They twist things so that their actions will have a morally rightous basis, because not too many people are demented enough to want to do something wrong, knowing that it is wrong. That is why myself and a few other members here have the task of killing Muslim wackos and the SAS has the task of killing Irish wackos. BTW, the struggle to free Ireland is not an entirely Catholic enterprise. The IRA just happens to be the most vocal and claim Catholicism as their guidance. Of course, these are the same folks that kill priests.