A Letter To Extremists

Dear religious extremists,
I understand your need to respect your Gods' words. I sympathize with your belief in the eternal and the supreme. Everyone needs something to believe in, else humanity would be tainted with hopeless darkness.
I'm a skeptic (believing in the existence of the divine, but requiring facts to prove it), from a Hindu family, who doesn't believe in religion and ritual. I have family members who chant Buddhist mantras and I have friends who are Muslims, Christian and Sikhs. I love them all without question of their faith for they mean a lot to me. I respect eveyone's beliefs when they go hand in hand with peace, love and harmony. You can even categorize me as an almost-atheist Indian hippie.
 After having cleared all these fact about my socio-cultural identity, I would like to raise my voice to all those who have caused bloodshed of a million innocents in the name of religion. You may argue about God's words, you may quote a million lines from a thousand holy books and none of it will change this one fact: you acted like the same hellish, damned beings that your religions and books describe.
 No individual can have a cause for requiring respect once they have caused harm (fatally even), for reasons purged in an illogical ideology, to innocent souls who have no direct relation what-so-ever with their many excuses, reasons, quotes and proverbs. If there is one thing that every religion most definitely teaches to all their followers, is the law of spreading love and not taking death in their own hands!
 How do you propose to justify the death of a child? By throwing religious lines? By equating justice for your own past wrongs through them? By declaring them to be defense mechanisms or triggers for a greater cause? HOW?
 All children have in their mind is good food, family, love, education and play! Why would you, by even the most stupid theory, pull them out of this protective, gentle, beautiful sphere and destroy them? Which hellish being destroys innocence?
 And this is not just limited to the poor souls of Pakistan, my neighbours, my friends. This is in reference to every terrorist motive in HISTORY! Killing people is NOT an answer! Raise your voice! Protest! Speak out! Cry! March! Run! Jump! Hide! But kill? That too innocents? How is this even remotely logical or justified? Did it SOLVE your issues? No! Rather it caused more harm and ruined you further. When you pull the trigger it isn't one man you kill, but two: the victim and yourself.
 So please, dear assaulter, see the sorrow in those parents' eyes. Their child lost to darkness, for no logical reason! Their lives shattered! How is this justified? Think! Sympathize! Regret!
Love,
Someone who is holding onto the last strands of hope,
Someone whose heart cries out for the families of the victims.