Help for the interpretation of "In The Name Of God"

[Dreamatlantic]

I am new at the forum. I am looking forward to be a part of this community. I am sorry, if this has been posted before, but I go ahead and try.

I am English teacher, and I want to use Dream Theater´s song "In The Name Of God" in class. I hope you will help to find all angels in the songs. I am also looking for books about these events the song probably refers to!

I have tried to analysis the song with a little help from previous threads at www.mikeportnoy.com, but I would love to have another take at the song!
 
I believe the song is simply put, "atrocities (killing/mayhem) done "in the name of God". It can be taken it that it's about various 'evil men' that have used other people's faith and twisted it for their own ends.
This could include the Hale Bopp Comet suicide cult, Jonestown Massacre, Warren Jeff in his Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), Waco Siege, Islamic Radicals, Christian Radicals, terrorists (who use religious violence as a political front), etc. 
 
Though can lines in the song can definitely refer to different things like the "from the cradle they are claimed" line could easy refer to the indoctrination of children we see in Palestine, Pakistan, etc. And the line "Underground religion Turning toward The mainstream light Blind devotion In the name of God" is kind of self explanatory like the line "Justifying violence Citing from the Holy Book Teaching hatred In the name of God".
 
List here is a brief introduction to the specific incidents I mentioned above:

Heaven´s Gate Cult Teory
The mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate group is one of the most widely known examples of cult suicide.

Jim Jones Theory
In the song:
Line: "Hundreds of believers...Lured into a doomsday cult...All would perish In the name of God" <--------Jonestown Massacre?
 
Warren Jeffs Theory   
In The Song: 
Line: "Forty sons and daughters Un-consenting plural wives Perversions In the name of God"  <-------- Could be radical Mormonism, but most do not follow this practice now. So I am thinking it can be Warren Jeffs, who "plural wives" and a lot of children.

I have to make sure that I am not ignorant and say that Warren Jeffs is a Mormon in your class. There is a HUGE difference between the FLDS church, and the LDS church. Don't ever confuse the two.

Waco Siege Theory

In The Song:
Line: "Self-proclaimed messiah Led his servants To their death Eighty murdered In the name of God" <------Waco Siege? David Koresh and 74 others died, but I guess that's what JP was referring to. 
 

Sources to be used could be:
Documentary:
Stanley Nelson - Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples' Temple

[millahh]

There's a lot of discussion in this thread that will likely help you:
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=28555.0

Note that Jeffs only became widely known a couple of years AFTER ToT was release...so it could have been referring to radical "mormonism", but it's unlikely that it was specifically Jeffs.