Well, you and your buddies here are the only ones who think their actions are political.
In the United states that I grew up in in the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties and early aughts, everyone agreed those crimes happened explicitly because they were atheists.
So, 50 years of human history.
The key term here Bob....
THEIR religion.
Not BIBLICAL religion.
There's nothing in the new testament which approves, condones, sanctions, endorses, instructs, or commands followers of Jesus to use violence to fight against evil, or to convert people to become followers of Jesus.
But, by all means, I encourage you to examine the new testament to find it. Find the support you need to affirm your opinions.
I know that the catholic church used violence to oppose the Muslim jihad in the crusade era.
I further know that the catholic church used vile means to force conversions of people during the Inquisition.
I am not, nor have I ever been a catholic. I just never liked man-made religion.
Yep. In the old testament.
The laws given to the nation of Israel.
And the reason why is also explicitly stated...
That they not become a snare to you so that your children are drawn away from YHVH and serve false gods.
So, as I am not an Israeli, I won't be tracking you down and slaughtering you.