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  There are fanatics amongst all religious persuasions who need little or no excuse or justification to parade their prejudices and ignorance before the world. Whilst this is irritating it is when they use those things to perpetrate or justify violent acts towards others that it becomes unacceptable and unjustifiable. Sadly history is littered with countless examples of this from the Crusades, through the Moorish occupation of the Iberian peninsular and the Christian backlash, the torrid history of Palestine/Israel, through to the current problems centred around the "stans". Whilst religion may not per se be the root cause and catalyst it is used by many from the fundamentalist sides of their particular belief system to justify atrocities.
  We must of course not lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of people who declare a religion, particularly in the western nations, are more secular than religious and are appalled by the acts of violence, stupidity etc. perpetrated in their name.

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