Unfortunately terrorism spans religions and ideologies.
I wrote about some of the factors that drive this stupidity here:
https://medium.com/ananas-blog/extremism-and-mount-stupid-5afa0eec7d4e, an excerpt from our whitepaper
Those who undertake terror in the name of Islam claim to do so due to a particular mutation in their belief system.
We have started modelling this, but in particular it appears to be a combination of two things -
i) a removal of reasonable doubt (shubha) doctrine from their jurisprudence vs the majority of Muslims/orthodoxy
ii) conflation of religious (Shariah) and secular (siyasa) law, something which didn't happen for a thousand years but has in the last century
iii) post-hoc retrofitting of actions to selective evidence
To allow everyone to explore this better we are actually launching the first counter-extremism ICO, with the pre-sale just opened here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2035149.new#new/, trying to create a solution to some of the issues I described in this reuters op-ed:
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/11/16/islamic-state-and-the-management-of-savagery/We will be putting some interesting new details up there and activating the bounties from Tuesday, happy to have any feedback.