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islam as a system of beliefs isn't benign.
Islam as a system of beliefs is benign - it is when individuals distort it to provide cover for violence and morally reprehensible acts that problems develop, but the issue there are those individuals, who believe political and social goals can be accomplished through such means.
Many of the early Palestinian 'terrorist organizations were not religious after all, neither were the LTTE.
Religion is a tool - that Islam is used more often than others these days as that tool has more to do with the social and political instability in large parts of the Muslim world, and the interplay of those dynamics with Western policies.