Every root cause under the sun was blamed for the growing fanaticism we saw around us - politics, culture, power, greed, U.S. foreign policy, British colonialism, Arab nationalism, Israel, the media - you name it. But no one seemed to want to connect it to the religion. It was anything, and everything, but the religion itself. Despite being the only common denominator, Islam had nothing to do with it at all, they’d say.

- Ali A. Rizvi, The Atheist Muslim