Quote for the Day: Faith and Violence

I am currently in the process of reading The End of Faith by Sam Harris, and I just wanted to share a provacative quote:

"People of faith tend to argue that it is not faith itself but man's baser nature that inspires such violence. But I take it to be self-evident that ordinary people cannot be moved to burn genial old scholars alive for blaspheming the Koran, or celebrate the violent deaths of their children, unless they believe some improbable things about the nature of the universe" (Harris 31).

I don't agree with all of Harris's conclusions, specifically that religious moderates are as much a threat to world peace as religious extremists, but I find a good deal of truth in what I've read so far. What do you think?