It might seem like a bastardisation of things, but if you think more about it, it's always been that way. Currently the world is vunerable to supressed minorities and majorities, so if someone goes out and cries for their hurt rights, their feeling and points the finger at the bad ones, half of the world will side with them. Plus, they will get a lot of support amongst their followers because of "hey, look at that, we are the supressed ones but we ain't going to give up. We'll be strong because our God/Gods/Whatever supports us." and of course the bad ones must die.

But religion has always been a tool, as already stated. A Tool for those seeking power. Look at the medieval europe and the reign of terror the christian church and inquisition held there. One commonly used sentence of mine, in this context, is "I don't have any problem with christianity, I might even believe a part of it. My problem lies with the church and the world empire it imposes.". The worlds nation have always been quick to jump to the aid of the supressed and helpless, sometimes very rightful. But the fundamentalists and some whole countries have realized the potential and the ease to manipulate the united nations and other similar organs into action and the easy path to get support from the people of foreign countries.

Because the true power always lie's within the power to manipulate the mob and here lies the problem of our modern world. We constantly get manipulated and the demands of tolerance and respect seem just to be another facete of this giant puppet play.