Root of all evil

Is religion the source of all evil? Why is it that religion usually is the cause of violence all over the world? I was just wondering maybe this is just a sign of the end of the World, well I hope so. I want to get off this freakin world full of hatred and violence. Read the news i got, then tell if i am right.

"A 45-year-old Buddhist originally from the country's north east, was shot three times in the back of his head while riding his cart into a Muslim village in Pattani, one of the three provinces hit by the violence, police said.

"They chopped his head off and walked away with it, leaving his body sitting on the ice cream bike's seat," a Pattani policeman told Reuters by telephone.

"Under current circumstances, he shouldn't have ventured into such a village," the policeman said." Via Alertnet