I'm not nearly so optimistic that the current fight isn't at base about religion.
The problem is it is and isn't war a war on a religon.
It is in that those we are fighting are members of one religon Islam.
And it isn't in that those we are fighting in one way represent anything like the majority of Muslims in the world.
By using the term "Bin Ladenism" instead of "Isalmic terrorism" and its variants, perhaps it will be easier to distiguish between those we are fighting and those we are not.