Anti-Religious Extremism!

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I sense Anti-Religious sentiments almost about everywhere, on this and similar forums, research groups, Media outlets (both electronic and Print). This, in itself, has gone to what I call Anti-Religious extremism. But, before I formally start my discussion, I must clear two points. First, I am not playing a victim here, not at all. Second, This post is not against a particular individual, group or belief system. What I truly desire from mylotians, is genuine deliberation, objectively, and with an open mind. I feel that much of the problem, in understanding, is because of ‘overwhelming’ information and, yet, ‘lack’ of knowledge. People don’t seem to have time for books and they type in Google or Wikipedia or any other search engine to get information. So, when they type extremism and similar other key words, the overwhelming results are all about religions. We have become so superficial that our thoughts are formed by others and not by our own investment of time into the subject. I have discussed War issues and crimes, Terrorism, Suicide bombings and similar subjects in recent days and I wish to sum them up here. It’s true that Organized Religions have been guilty of war crimes, mostly in what are known as Crusades, Inquisition and Holy wars and later, in so called Terrorism and Suicide bombings. What I do however feel is that there is dishonesty regarding the details of war history, which is usually very selective and always against religions. Most of Organized War crimes committed by today’s Organized Religions happened during early 4th and 15th century. What people tend to forget is that there is filthy War history before and after this period which isn’t mentioned when atrocities are discussed because Religions can’t be blamed, directly and honestly. Even, within that period, many a time, Religious atrocities were reactive rather than proactive and sometimes they were also subjected to brutal War crimes. There is a long list of war crimes committed by Pagan empires before 4th century, even against Christians. Christians were tortured, killed, mutilated, burnt and sacrificed for three centuries until the tables were turned by King Constantine who committed same crimes against those who were doing the same, earlier. After 15th century, most of the devastation is brought by nationalistic, political and geo-political agendas. Rather, even before 15th century (13th to 15th), Mongols brought worst form of crimes and barbarity against human kinds killing several millions and subjugating 100s of millions but no body seems to discuss them. Devastation brought about by non-Religious, Atheistic or secular forces is worst of all times after 17th century and especially in the last century. Many wars which are told as religious wars had nothing to do with religion but were purely on nationalistic and geo-political motives or even on personal motives. All Colonial wars, WWI, WWII, 1st and 2nd Sino-Japanese Wars, Vietnam war, Iran-Iraq war(Saddam was a Marxist secular), Afghan war, Iraq war, Khalistan Movement, Tamil Tigers movement, Kashmir, Chinese-Indian war, freedom movements in Ireland and Scotland, and many, many other such events were never religiously motivated. They claimed more than 125 million deaths and 100s of millions of other casualties and sufferings. My question: Don’t you think that Religions are unfairly over criticized by only mentioning their crimes and leaving aside other bigger crimes against humanity? If religious war history suggests that Religions should be taken out than more devastating non-religious and secular war history would suggest what?