“No longer” they didn’t pursue it from the start, just pretended to.

Ah yes, but other ideologies which have been destructive are not? I hope you’ll be consistent in pointing out the secular states of today continue to wreak havoc, death and destruction in the middle east and Africa. (Let’s not forget colonialism)

And the secular atheist communist states of Russia and China, those didn’t commit ethnic cleansing and killed millions of people?

I’ll just mention the destruction that the USSR brought to Kazakhstan that lingers to this day as an example.