You make a good point about all religions having their extremists, but the disturbing truth is that a much higher percentage--still not too high thank goodness--of "mainstream" Muslims support the Taliban and other extremists than the percentage of "mainstream" Christians who support clinic bombers. There are a lot more polls out there than the Indonesian one. And of those mainstream Muslims that do not support them, there is often silence when it comes to condemning the attacks.

Religion is used as a tool of government to dominate and control citizens' behavior in Islamic autocracies like Iraq, and plutocracies like Saudi Arabia. Think about that the next time some judge tries to post the Ten Commandments in a public courtroom.

I do hope you don't consider the Iraqi dictatorship and the Ten Commandments in a courtroom as equivalent.