First off, I'd like to point out that this church was trashed. Although there's usually a glaring difference between what happens after a Mosque is vandalized, there's also a glaring difference between trashing a church, and bombing a Mosque and killing people. If some members of this Church were killed, I highly doubt the suspects would be getting gifts instead of a "good-ole Christian" eye for an eye execution.

But to my main point,

There are forgiving and extreme people in all religions. If you look at history then Christianity was more brutal. But it doesn't matter. There's a misconception. Because people do those things in the name of their religion, doesn't mean it's a problem with that religion so much as it is a problem with those people. If people are extreme, then they're going to be extreme; religion is just a good tool for them to wrap around their extremities to try and provide justification, in their own minds, for what they do; and to control other people.

Iraq was a secular dictatorship. Saddam even modeled his rule on Stalin.