Religion just gets tangled up with tribalism which is the real war starter! But then most wars get started for resources or land, religion just happens too be a way to get the masses behind it.
Well, to be fair. Given the recent leak on wikileaks of all those documents showing how innocent men, women and children in Afghanistan are getting killed all of the time. We really can't boast about that war. The war was about going after Al-Qaeda, and we have succeeded with that. But Al-Qaeda are an ideology and have moved onto Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan. They've left Afghanistan for the most part and leave that mess to the Taliban, whilst using the struggle of the Taliban as a means to recruit more members.
Sorry to hear your father was killed by religious bigots but I disagree with compensation. It was not this government or this country that set of bombs on 7/7! The people who did that are dead, and the people who helped radicalize them are probably still in a Leeds mosque teaching about the Evils of the west... And being watched by MI5!