"If not, and the priest knew this, he would probably decline to hear your confession."
I suggest you familiarise with exactly what priests have listened to and granted absolution for - and refused to pass on to the appropriate authorities, in many cases allowing the confessor to continue 'sinning' - you really have to tell me which branch of Specsavers you go to for your rose-coloured spectacles.
Please don't preach to me on a subject that has been a part of my experience for all of my life.
"They are the ones doing the terrorism,"
No they are not - you have described what is happening in Gaza as "terrorism" - it has nothing to do with holy war - it has everything to do with retaliating to a brutally expansionist regime.
The Assad regime is Muslim, as you have pointed out - what is happening in Syria is about suppressing opposition to that regime - nothing to do with religion. In fact, up to the end of the present arms embargo the civilised Christian world has continued to sit on its hands and do nothing while the people of Syria are slaughtered, egged on by people like you who have applauded that inaction even to the extent of suggested that the regime be supplied with riot control equipment.
Many of the States that adhere to Sharia law are trading partners with and allies of the west. Within weeks of the beginning of the Arab Spring protests the British Prime Minister was hosting an arms fair in order to try and sell arms to the same regimes - not a great sign of holy war there.
If these were "holy wars", the streets of countries like Britain with high immigrant Muslim populations would be awash with blood a point you continue to ignore, as is your wont   
The only holy war here is the one being fought by people like yourself with your blind racist/cultural hatred of one religious group, while at the same time giving wholesale support to a real live-'n-kicking terrorist State heavily influenced by religious extremists.
"Alas, Jim Carroll only cares for human beings in the abstract."
Whatever you say anonymous guest - but at least I'm not attempting to use the killing of a young soldier as a platform for Islamophobia - which I have little doubt you regard as a laudable way to behave.
Jim Carroll