The aggressors can commit such violence only with the intention of attacking religion itself.
It may well be that those who carried out this violence did so to present religion as evil in the eyes of people, to divorce people from religion and to generate hatred towards those who are religiously inclined. Consequently, every attack on American citizens or other innocent people having a religious facade is actually an attack made against religion.
Thanks GOPJ,
At least a couple of you are starting to see that the West (including conservatives) has been completely duped by the far Left. They tried to do the same thing in support of the Sandanistas (Nicaraguan Communists) and the ANC (South African Communists) by getting Marxist-Atheists to pose as priests and advocate on behalf of Communist revolution...it was known as "Liberation Theology." However, this wasn't nearly as effective because Christians and Catholics know their own religion!!! But when it comes to the Communists propoganda campaign against Islam, conservatives fall for it hook, line and sinker.