"Our complaint is about putting the blame on an entire class of people,"
Religion isn't a 'class' Joe - it's a group of people within a society who adhere to a doctrine of superstion or other non-rational belief.
"industrial, political, and financial lobbies...."
All of which are tangible and opposable - religion messes with your mind and uses spiritual blackmail to do so.
Christianity has been responsible for many horrific crimes, from child rape (quite recently on a huge scale) to mass murder - don't make this just a Muslim thing.
Jim Carroll