No, but there are reasons why so many terrorists are Muslims.

In order to be a good Muslim, one must perform the Five Pillars of Islam: proclaim the faith ("There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the messenger of God"), pray five times a day, give alms, fast during Ramadan and make a pilgrimage to Mecca.

On the one hand, jihad isn't one of the Five Pillars, so it isn't a duty. A lot of Muslims reject the idea of jihad and worldwide acts of terrorism. Some of these moderate Arabs fled the Middle East because they didn't want to be involved with the radicals. Many Arabs who live in the United States have seen more terrorism than most of those born here, and condemn it.

On the other hand, jihad is mentioned several times in the Koran. If a Muslim accepts every word of the Koran as literally true (the way some Christians accept every word of the Bible literally), then he cannot condemn the idea of jihad. He can only argue about when it's appropriate.

And here's why such moderate Muslims have been losing ground to the fundamentalists over the last decade. It's an uphill battle to make a reasonable argument against only part of a religious text. If someone says "I believe everything in the Book," and someone else says, "I only believe this bit of it and that one," it comes down to who shouts loudest or hits hardest. That's why there have been so many religious wars not just between Muslims and Christians, but between Christians and Christians or Muslims and Muslims.