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The majority of religious people completely base their morality on their holy text. Make of that what you will.
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In my experience - and I've met a wide variety of people from a bunch of religions, and a range of levels of religiosity within those religions - the majority of religious people base their interpretation of their holy text based on their morality. As has been mentioned several times in this thread, all the major religion's holy texts are completely inconsistent, and have both good parts and bad parts. People generally seem to choose the bits that agree with their morality and explain away/ignore the rest. I have only very rarely seen people learn something new in a text that disagreed with a previously held ethical viewpoint, then actually change their behaviour as a result.
The same goes for your most recent post: The governments are picking and choosing what they want to take from the religion as well, based on whatever their leaders see in their own best interest.
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I consider myself liberal, but I find it hilarious that most leftists will defend and make excuses for Islam. Most Muslims, (based on a good series of polls) don't approve of sexual promiscuity, or alcohol, or gay rights, or pretty much anything that the liberal left believes in.
They reject the values that anyone in the western world who calls themselves a liberal believes in.
That makes them more akin to a conservative, yet most conservatives in the west hate Muslims, they are the ones saying that all Muslims are terrorists and that we should ban them, yet the liberal leftists are the ones who can't stop sucking Islam's cock.
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Did you know that the majority of America's Muslim population voted for George W. Bush in his first election? For precisely the reasons you mention - religious Muslims tend to relate much more with the conservative side of politics. It's just that since then the right wing has managed to alienate them, which is why most Muslims vote liberal these days.