Therefore, to declare a holy war is therefore to go against the very essence of religion, and shows a lack of understanding of one's own religion. It is reducing God to our human level of jealousy, quarrels and criminal hatred.

Different reasons can explain why this strange alliance between religion and violence appeared and still appears in the history of peoples. The essence of religion is misunderstood. The believer transforms religion into his own good and property, and under the pretext of believing in the true one God, he makes himself his own god and starts fighting for his own interests. So religious feeling becomes only a weapon in the soul of the believer, instead of being a factor of reconciliation and principle of mutual understanding and forgiveness. In this manner, the believer makes of himself the lieutenant of God and becomes the cruelest man in his pretension to impose the respect of the divine laws of the loving God.

Third, some political leaders, knowingly or unknowingly, use and exploit religion and the deep-rooted religious feelings of individuals in order to have one more weapon in their fight against enemies.
The conclusion is: religion is not in itself a source of violence and war. Only when religion is not understood, or is misused, man makes out of it a source of violence.