@hawkeye10,
I always find it funny that Muslims demand respect for their religion yet have no problem destroying monuments of other religions. For the past twenty years they have been destroying ancient Buddhist shrines and statues that were carved into cliff walls in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
My take on it is. If you want your religion to be respected then you have to in turn respect others. But this simple thing of destroying monuments forfeits any respect that you demand.
Also there is a contradiction between extremists and moderates of every religion. The moderates almost never challenge the extremists so they indirectly support the extremists because they are "technically" on the same side. Usually the only thing I hear about from moderates on extremists is that they are not really of their religion. So they just try to sell off the idea that an extremist isn't really apart of their group.
This doesn't solve anything because the extremists do believe they are apart of your group and in turn believe they are acting in accordance with the belief system.
Yet there is no further educating going on because of this dismissal. If moderates were to stand up against extremists then we might actually get some movement away from stupidity. Until then we will continue to have crazy killings for absurd reasons built upon extremists views of what their god condones.