I would think sometimes it has to do with older racial or tribal feuds, and this tribe might have happened to convert to Christianity and this one to Islam, and then you have the headlines MUSLIM TERRORISTS BUTCHER HELPLESS CHRISTIAN VILLAGERS IN INDONESIA!
However I don't know why our media didn't really stress that the Serbs were Christian and the Albanians were Muslim. Had we lived in a different today, we might have such headlines as "SERBIAN CHRISTIAN OPPRESSORS MASSACRE THOUSANDS OF HELPLESS ALBANIAN MUSLIMS."

@Dogboy: This is a thread about "Words for God" in Russian, so I don't see why she can't post Russian religious phrases. If they irritate you then don't look at them. What crosses the line is when they start putting religious messages into their posts.