Liberal ideas don’t kill, extremism does - a rebuttal

Zaid Ibrahim argues that liberal ideas do not kill but puts the blame on religion for the insecurity and wars. He did not read the history of the birth of Western liberal thought, which arose after the bloody conflict with the church authority, which led to the separation of the church from the state. He also does not acknowledge that it was the liberal west who invaded other resource rich countries and plunder their resources, who enforced their will on others and in turn enslaving others, such occurred during the colonial period, and still continues until today, the invasion of Iraq in 2003 (over a million killed), and before, the usurping of North America, Spanish Inquisition of South America, Australia, Africa and Asia by the other European colonialist with the genocide of millions of indigenous population, and the kidnapping of millions of African slaves, many were unfortunate to die in the long perilous journey and had their bodies dumped into the Atlantic ocean. Also, the worst wars which cost the lives of 70 million such as in World War I and II, were not fought over religion, or religion did not have a basis for those wars. While it is acknowledged that there were wars over religion, such as the Crusades in the Middle Ages, and Al-Qaeda in the 20th century, but the fact the history worst dictators such as Mao of China, Stalin of Russia, who were responsible for 70 and 9 millions of deaths in China and Russia in the 20th century, did not have any religious affiliation, both were atheists. In the US, everyone have the liberty to own guns, and more than 40,000 people die from gun inflicted wounds every year in the US alone. The prison population per capita in the US is the highest in the world, and in many parts in the US, it is unsafe to go out at night without the fear of being mugged, robbed or raped, all this in the so called liberated country.