I complete agree. The execution of 12 poor nepalese hostages in Iraq proves that these militants have no end to their cause. This is not a fight between United States and the Iraqi militants this is a war between two civilizations. It is the war between Muslims and Non Muslims. The release of Turkish and Egyptian hostages, and the murder of the desperate south korean further proves that this war has been waged against the world by these radical militants. Ideological conflict now has been replaced by conflicts among those with different religions, values, ethnicities, and historical memoriesýthe cultural factors that define civilizations. Alliances are being formed based on common civilization rather than common ideology. The violent breakup of Yugoslavia was the first along the lines dividing Catholic, Orthodox, and Islamic regions; on the other side of the coin decades-long fight between Muslims and Hindus over Kashmir has been the seed of hatred for the past half century. We are living in difficult times, it is fair and more importantly wise to question your faith during these circumstances. Who is god? Would he/she want this? If he/she existed would this happen? If he/she didn't exist would this have happened? Religion does provide motivation as humans' naturally seek higher power for salvation. Too bad that the higher power can't make every single decision for wo/mankind, so some circumstances requires the higher power to be absent. In fact the higher power should be unknown to everyone of us, at the same time we should create our own respective god inside of us, simply to keep us going. If religion was not reflective the question of hatred would have never stemmed out. It is true that people are socially, geographically and ethnically different but we are the same, would it take an alien race to attack us to unite us? I am loosing track and i am speaking the truth, hopefully the world would overcome the barrier of hatred that is upon us right now.