Of course you don't follow it.
I never said it had "nothing to do with religion".
I said: "I totally agree. Relgion is nothing more then a tool, a language that unites the group. If it weren't religion - it would be something else serving the same purpose such as nationalism or a political ideology, or an ethnic identity."
You might also consider the following.
There is no "world wide wave of Islamist attacks on civilians".
The following is occurring:
Attacks are made on countries seen to support the US occupation in Iraq. This is a political act. The aim is to force those countries to withdraw their support. There is nothing particularly religious about it.
The vast majority of Islamist attacks are occuring in countries under war and - particularly under war by foreign entities.
Other Islamist attacks are occuring in primarily in hird world politically and economically unstable countries with predominantly Muslim populations where Islamic fundamentalists want to impose Sharia and their version of morality. What's driving this? Religion? Or, is the increase in fundamentalism (across the spectrum of religions such as Hindu and Christian) world wide a sign of something else - culture shock? The rate of change in the world is increasing geometrically and faster than a culture can adapt to and the automatic reaction is to withdraw - into parochialism, fundamentalism and isolationism. The thing is - in Western countries, there are political mechanisms for change. Muslims and Christians and others are using political mechanisms to attempt to force their brand of morality on the country. In countries like Sudan, Pakistan, Iraq, former Soviet block countries- in fact a lot of African and Middle East countries - there is no viable political process so violence is the answer.
So sure, religion - in general - has something to do with it. But does the scripture of Islam alone drive this? No. No more then scripture of Christianity or the beliefs of Hinduism both of which have been the cause of much bloodshed and will undoubtably be again and it's people like you - who insist that the religion as a whole is to blame that will be the cause of WW3, because your stridency drowns out the voices of moderation within Islam, and those voices need to be listened to, by all sides.
Some one once did a comparison of violence and calls for violence in the Bible and in the Koran. The Koran was more violent. But only marginally.