The people who get killed, do they give a shit about what the motive was? no they're dead. Because they don't care about religion, makes it ok to kill people?
Fact is, drug cartels do the worst kind of painful torture and make it last days to make victims suffer. The terrorists over your area blow you up, a quick death you won't even know. Which one would you take?
But toxic seed sowed by terrorists is far more greater than drug cartels.US FBI destroy the drug cartels in US easily(I think Sicilian Mafia) .But against ALQeada ,they spend trillion of dollars and thousands of Americans life and still its an ongoing conflict