Of course it's about religion.
Why do our "leaders" lie to the public about what our actual motivations for the "war on terror"? Why not call it what it really is, a "war on Islam"? - then you have Obama claiming we're "not at war with Islam". Then there's some of you guys, from these forums, who espouse freedom of/from religion... except when it's Islam... If it's Islam, it must be destroyed, and nobody has a right to practice it because it only creates terrorists. It's all a huge double standard.
I'm not on either side. Our side is stupid as fuck because half the population doesn't understand that there are consequences that come along with our actions, those consequences often don't happen till years after the fact. All they see is some insane terrorist with a bomb strapped to his chest blowing up a bus full of innocent people and don't care to realize or understand the motivations someone might have for committing such an act. Their side is stupid as fuck because the majority of the population still resides in the dark ages, where information is transfered via word of mouth, from the elders and tribe leaders. Their leaders keep their population under submission via Sharia Law, and just like our leaders, they manipulate the masses into doing their bidding at the expense of the serfs, the people who don't matter, the expendables.
Both sides are stupid, both sides are uninformed about the others motivations, both sides have leaders that claim the well being of the nation is the number one priority, while manipulating that same nations people they claim to protect into fighting wars designed to protect profits for the few.
Fuck war, anybody who supports it, and anybody who takes a life for the $.