In the name of God??

It is fair to say that the underlying factors in most of the major conflicts that has engulfed and laid waste to every corner of our globe is "GOD".
According to wikipedia "religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence'', but the fact is there are probably as many definitions for the term ''religion'' as there religions.
There are about 21 major world religions today and i use the word major because there are myriad of other religions practised by a smaller number of people as compared to the major religions that have huge numbers  of people adhering to it's principles.
Each and every one of this religions possess their own narratives, symbols and histories that are intended to explain the meaning of life or the origin of life. Most of the world's view on morality and ethics are culled from many religious precepts irrespective of where such laws bind and that brings to the fore the common factor among these religions. these religions all acclaim a supreme being as the creator or the origin of all life but they have different ways of worshipping the creator.
So coming back to the differences in these religions that brings about war and bloodshed, i use as an example   different conflicts in different time frames pitching one religion against the other and my first example will be the CRUSADES.

The CRUSADES were a series of holy wars waged from the year 1095 to 1291 by the christians against the moslems as a result of the moslems occupying several sites that are considered holy and integral to the their beliefs (christians)...the exact number of deaths during this wars remain a mystery but i'm of the school of thought that insists that even if it were only a single life lost over our incapacity to make space in our minds to accomodate but not neccessarily accept the beliefs of others, it would still be considered too high a price to pay.
Bringing my thoughts back to our present time, wars abound in Afghanistan, eastern europe, north africa, and west africa and they have one major catalyst....extremist islamic groups supposed to be fighting for God by waging war on members of other religious groups and referring to them as ''infidels'' and calling themselves the ''mujahideen''. The news is filled with bombings, beheadings and suicide attacks carried out by them in different parts of the world and i wonder aloud, would the creator of all life rather one lived for his beliefs or die for them???

In present day Nigeria an extremist islamist group known as "Boko Haram" ongoing war against western education and the core values of which our society is based on has claimed untold number of lives and having gone through their propaganda which i find simply appaling. Included among their agenda is an unfettered bias against the female sex and i ask again, does the Creator have separate laws for the male and female sex??....does the creator prefer one over the other??.
I pose this question to anyone who reads this, ''how many more must die in the name of GOD??
The mad man has spoken......PEACE!!