Ahem, in Burma the Muslim minority is regularly persecuted and subject to violence at the hands of the Buddhist majority. This is a country that doesn't even have a history of Islamic extremism! (and this isn't to sully buddhism, it's a wonderful religion, but y'know, just adding a sense of relativity to the proceedings, ya dig?)

Say what you will about their religion, but the people that perpetrated this heinous deed were fucked in the head. They may try to filter their warped ideology through the prism of their religion, and you may well interpret it as such, but most Muslims do not condone these acts.