JGN - how did you conclude that 2/3 of wars are fought in the name of religion?who said this? Wars are fought for greed,race,ethinicity and political territory.
Graham E Fuller - Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA and currently a professor of at Simon Fraser University,recently published his paprer - The world without Islam in Foreign Policy affairs.
..It is s too comfortable for Western observers to ignore a long history of Western colonialism in the Middle East while blindly identifying Islam as the key source of global tension..
..He notes that the principal horrors of the 20th century came almost exclusively from strictly secular regimes. Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo, Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin and Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. It was Europeans who visited their world wars twice upon the rest of the world -- two devastating global conflicts with no remote parallels in Islamic history...