The murder of four Israeli Arabs by a deranged Israeli soldier – a terrorist – happened just hours after I filed a column for Scripps Howard on the relationship between religion and extremism.

I make the argument that those who think Islam alone gives rise to carnage need to think again.

But Islam is not, as has often been claimed, “a religion of peace.” And Osama bin Laden has not “hijacked” Islam.

The column is here.