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What do you call 'political violence'?
Violence motivated by some sort of political thought process.
I religious violence political? Probably. The line between the two is incredibly blurry.
What about violence caused by mental illness? No. The action probably has delusional thinking behind it, which differs from the other examples, but the line is once again very blurry.
There are religious people who believe it is their religious duty to hurt other people and bring about a political change in the world. Peer pressure, cognitive biases and even delusions can be involved, which further muddies the water.
Extreme cases are clearly in one category or another, but between them we have plenty of unclear cases and a very wide gray area. Humans love to categorize things in black and white terms, but life rarely fits in these binary definitions.
Think of definitions as a flimsy cardboard box with many holes here and there. Think of life as a huge angry octopus you’re trying to force into this tiny box. As soon as you manage to close the lid, 3 tentacles have found some holes here and there. You poke those tentacles back in, but that just forces the lid open again. The octopus is sort of, maybe, partially in the box, kinda, but not really. Eh, close enough.