So, compare our well-meaning jury of folks doing bad things to a case of an honest Iraqi plumber who loves his children, pets his dog, feeds the hungry family next door, and then straps on a plastic explosive and a bag of ball bearings and kills 12 people at a wedding. The example of the jury describes the unfortunate but understandable example of acting on faulty, though reasonable, information. The second case demonstrates a situation where our plumber was motivated by one of two things...a)madness b)religion. To contend that they are different things may indeed be splitting hairs. Religion here being a literal interpretation of the teaching of a Holy Book, which is the mark of the True Believer.

This is a fallacious argument. Most suicide bombers do what they do, not because of religious reasons, but because their homeland is being occupied by a foreign government. In those contexts, the suicide bombers have not been from only one religion. Their religion is incidental to the political reasons for their act of suicide bombing. (Although I grant you that in some cases, religion has been used as a recruitment tool... but not the majority of cases). And recently, in China, people have begun using suicide bombing as a form of protest against the practices of their own government.