Rather, it is a violent and tyrannical system of governing others.
To the extent humans have an innate hunger for God (and they regularly demonstrate that this hunger exists and is preeminent in its power), Islam is also a religion in that it addresses that hunger along with its system of completely governance.
People do not blow themselves up in great numbers merely for a system of governance they will not live to see.
Islam's power is FIRST and greatest that it feeds the hunger for a god.
So, you would agree that mild-communism (AKA: socialism) is likewise a religion?
Wherein the governed expect the “nobless oblige” to be moderated by a moral set of values?
As to your plea to “blowing-oneself-apart”, dying a death of a faux-martyr does not justify a “religion”.
Again, Islam is NOT a religion but IS a violent and tyrannical system of governance (actually, oppression) of those who are not in a position of power within that system.
Islam feeds the hunger for an over-seer...that which will not separate the “faithful’s” head from their body.
Kinda simple.
Islam is NOT a religion.