Not entirely, most of the early terror groups were motivated by marxist/pan Arab objectives rather than religion. The PFLP, the second largest PLO member in the early days, was founded by Christian marxists. However the Islamists have clearly won the day.
This all got started because Allmendream and Atlaw and a few others keep linking Christian creationists with Islamic terrorists (i.e. Islamist terrorists = creationists, Christian YECs = creationists, therefore Christian creationists and Islamic terrorists are the same).
I’m not denying there are Islamic terrorists. My main point is that the Soviets (read revolutionary materialists) are primarily responsible for most of the terrorist groups (to include Islamist terror groups) that we see today. Not only that, many of the so-called Islamic terrorist groups we see today are in reality revolutionary materialists. That is why we see Che Guevarra’s picture adorning the flags lining the streets of Hezballah strongholds in Lebanon. That is why, in a recent study on suicide bombers, the majority of Hezballah suicide bombers turned out to be secular socialists and communists. The PLO was obviously Marxist-Leninist, but were treated as Muslim extremists by the MSM. That is why the majority of the top commanders in the Taliban were former communists who conveniently grew beards. Almost the entire cast of modern Islamist terrorists got their start because of the Soviet decision to create Muslim terrorist organizations to fan the flames of hatred towards the “main enemy” (read: the United States and Israel). So if they want to try and create a phony link between Christian creationists and Islamist terror, I think it’s only fair to point out the VERY REAL links between revolutionary materialism and the same.
As you say “the Islamists have clearly won the day” in that region; they own the vast majority of the terrorist groups in that region, and they recruit members and justify their actions using the Quran.