text: From what I can gather from the article - I'd say this is true, but only to an extent. There are, after all, around 1,8 billion Muslims - around 1,5 billion Sunnis. Surely, 1,5 billion people cannot be the problem; the problem are the few thousands who use Islam for their own agenda to justify their barbaric actions. There are equally bad people who use Buddhism (see Burma) or Christianity (see Central African Republic or Lord's Resistance Army or Irish Republican Army) to justify horrific atrocities. 
  
  If religion is just an excuse for despicable actions - and it seems like it is - then looking at the underlying reasons behind despicable actions could be a better strategy, perhaps.