Agree whole-heartedly w/ Cheese.
How about this example. McVeigh, while being a Christian (we assume), bombed the Oklahoma Government building for political reasons. He believes the world should be a certain way, and went about achieving it. Did his spirituality provide him with the 'faith' he needed to do the job? We'll never know.
We call him 'terrorist'.
Where I think Cheese has a fantastic point is, if you take the same type of guy, but paint him brown and put him in Iraq, his dissent immediately takes on a religious character (because that's what our media tells us). He may be just as religious (or not) as McVeigh, but he bombs the crap out of Baghdad because of his political beliefs.
It seems that the former is accepted without question. The latter seems to constantly confuse political beliefs and reasons w/ religious beliefs and reasons.
We tend to automatically assume that every fighter in the Middle East is Muslim before Middle-Eastern.
You can certainly avoid seeing the point though, if you like. It seems crystal clear to me.
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