Answer: Religion forever has been the easiest weapon to target any community and being in a secular country uphold people's aggression.
This short of conflicts because we as citizen's get wrongly motivated by someone's wicked desire of division of thoughts.
Explanation: If you go through most of the attacks on any famous site in the world irrespective of the country you can find only two reasons it can either be political or religious, political causes are because of the developing technologies in wrong hands whereas the religious one is because of wrong understanding of religion.
In America for example Christianity has never been a monolith, it is rather a subject to American unification.
If two students with religion X and Y respectively and someone else belonging to religion X with just the intension to provoke a conflict between them starts speaking useless stuffs about religion Y(say) and in order to defend his religion he will say stuffs hurting people from religion X and that's how we see religion is being manipulated to advance conflicts.