Religion in itself is not the cause of any conflict. However, very often it is dragged into several conflicts and is used as a motif for concentrating and polarizing the communities in a war because of the force and the important sense of identity that a principle such as faith gives to people. Important actors and stakeholders drive the conflict and push one community against the other based on differences in their religious identity. Extremists are fighting to preserve their group identity and echo the way that they imagine or perceive religion themselves (or are led by false preachers of the same extreme interpretation of their religion). This cosmic fight between the forces of evil and good is current in religious conflicts and their violent actions allegedly represent the necessary responses to the threats of the criminal other—which is also a result of a value judgment of the extremist and not an objective result of evaluation.