In this work I’m focusing on extreme fundamentalists who believe that their religion gives them the right to tell everyone else what they are and are not allowed to do and commands them to kill certain non-believers. Religion is often used as a well of justification for some of the most horrendous and heinous human behavioral excesses.
Religious pogroms and crusades are of all times. One of the most venerated saints and theological teachers of the catholic church called for a crusade against the Islam with the words “Cursed be he who does not stain his sword with blood.” And then there is the infamous inquisition who killed 30,000 to 300,000 people (The last execution of the Inquisition was in Spain in 1826. This was the execution by garroting of the Catalan school teacher Gaietà Ripoll for purportedly teaching Deism in his school.) Some fundamentalist Christian churches in the USA are still calling up their members to kill people that go against their teachings.
Another contemporary example is the Jihad that motivates some Muslim extremist to wage war against everyone who doesn’t share their believes. Although the jihad has always been an important part of the Islamic tradition, in recent years some Muslims have maintained that jihad is a universal religious obligation for all true Muslims to join the jihad to promote a global Islamic revolution.
And then you have the extremist Hindus who wage a war against Muslims and Christians alike. Or the Buddhist extremists who’re waging a genocidal war against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar.
The Maharajagar 