Terrorism and Religion

When you associate terrorism with a particular religion, everybody is hurt. But, come to think of it! From times immemorial, terrorism and violence were inextricably linked to religion, race or caste. From the inquisition to the holocaust, partition of India and the Sikh terrorism, the foot soldiers of each group swore by religion and targeted their violence on the particular religious group they chose to hate.
The current Islamic terrorism is not born out of revenge. It is a philosophy to exterminate the ‘non-believers by launching a ‘jihad’ and attain martyrdom and salvation in the process. It is not forgetting that a vast majority of Muslims or any other religious group is not with the jihadists. Some of them are even vociferous in their attack on such elements. It is the clergy who have vested interests who promote terrorism and the idea f the ‘pure’. Isn’t it strange that they use the services of the underprivileged in their religion to become suicide bombers and marauders? We have not heard of Osama bin laden or any other Mullah getting hurt in the violence perpetrated throughout the world!
If there are Eta terrorists, their activity is only within Spain. Hindu fundamentalists attack specific targets where they feel they have been wronged. But just look at Islamic terrorism. They are mindless in choosing their targets and their area of operation is the entire world. It is bad that we have not learnt to call a spade a spade.
Religion should be a private affair. Governments should ban all exhibition of religious activities in public and prevent building of more religious structures. Religions have wreaked enough havoc all over the world in all ages.
Let us have a world without religious tags and ban all religious propaganda claiming that salvation can be obtained only though a particular God..