“To my mind, it has spread more virulently than the virus proper. A disease of the mind that panders to the very basest nature of the human psyche.”
Unfortunately, it has been doing what you noted above for over a thousand years.
Look at the middle east for the past few decades. Islam/ISIS and the other evil forms of Islam like the Sunnis have killed more people than any other disease.
Islam is a deadly mental disease that destroes those infected with it and the innocents around these insane/evil bastards.
Islam is an environmental virus, too. Islam has converted some of the most fertile grain lands in the world to semi arid sheep pasture. They do that everywhere. Look at how Moslems treated the thriving greenhouses the Jews left them when the Israeli government evicted them from Gaza.