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[jeff47]

65. No. They have to do with power.

The terrorists acts you list are all about power. Religion is just the tool used to manipulate people into giving them more power.

Just as the "flip side" of those events are also about power. "Look! I can draw Mohammed!" is attempting to show that those sociopaths do not have power.

After all, it's only one of the two major sects that think that a picture of Mohammed is wrong. Pictures and statues are extremely common in Iran. Yet those terrorists are not attacking Iran.

What they're looking for is the backlash. It's hard to find people who will sign up to die for a sociopath's cause. But if you create a despised, discriminated against and angry underclass, you can find a lot more recruits and thus gain a lot more power. So they are trying very, very hard to make it about Islam. That way the ultra-right groups in France will come to power based on anti-Islam rhetoric, and they'll start to repress the Muslims in France. That gives the terrorists a large pool of recruits in France. Leading to more power, more attacks, and continuing the cycle.