A deeper understanding is:
there is a certain probability that is innate in our genes to actions of benefit and actions of harm.
there is a certain probability that is innate in our psychological character, that is partially organic and partially circumstantial, to actions of benefit and actions of harm.
there is a certain freedom of choice as to acting on innate tendencies v tendencies we adopt through ideology.
The sum of these tendencies cause a certain interpretation of reality and thus an action.
(A more hindu terminology would be: we are given a nature that we are born with- satva/rajas/tamas mix, we are given a local sphere of knowledge - karma / prarabdha karma, and we are given the moment to chose to act in based on our understanding of reality - ishtadevata/paramatma.)
Now let us take that the statistical distribution of innate nature is likely equal to the majority (have to exclude handicaps, etc) of humans (I don’t really believe that as I believe in Karma but it is a good starting point). We can then measure the effect of the combination of the local environment and the person’s choices by looking for differences in behavior of individuals across societies (known as sociology). Within societies of equal opportunity we can then ask what is the effect on behavior of ideologies.
If we find no difference statistically, then the ideologies don’t matter.
If we find a difference we can postulate on why.
If we compare societies, we can also gain a perspective on the effect of ideology as ideology does reflect the social backdrop but we have to be more cautious (account for economic factors, dictators, etc) but we can draw similar conclusions.
I believe that if we do this we find Hindus and Buddhists are way out of line with the christo-islamists - in the positive side for Hindus and Buddhists. That is not to believe that there is no Hindu terrorism (or perhaps in your perspective terrorism in the name of Hindus) (and other factors can and should be looked at: having family values, divorce rates, spouse abuse rates, value to education, ecologic responsibility…)but rather that the likelihood of a Hindu being a terrorist is far less than a christian or muslim being a terrorist given the same genetic and socioeconomic factors. We could conclude that this is a restraint on Hindus (man is bad and religion helps to control that) or that this is a restraint on the christo-islamists (man is good until brainwashed into doing bad). I would choose the second interpretation and this then compels us to address the brainwashing
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