"Each culture's collective behaviour, depends on that culture's history and what they have been through over the centuries "
Willi you miss the point- I do not speak of individual murderers whatever their religion or up bringing. You will never get to the genesis of the issue so long as you frantically attempt to focus on the tit-for tat behaviour of the adversaries' - Look to the ideology-
Of all the violent ideologies Islam is the most concerning to modern civilisation.
"Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology. Ideology – that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes.... That was how the agents of the Inquisition fortified their wills: by invoking Christianity; the conquerors of foreign lands, by extolling the grandeur of their Motherland; the colonizers, by civilization; the Nazis, by race; and the Jacobins (early and late), by equality, brotherhood, and the happiness of future generations... Without evildoers there would have been no Archipelago."
— The Gulag Archipelago, Chapter 4, p. 173[2]
