(June 11, 2015 at 6:20 pm)Saxmoof Wrote: There are plenty of extremely poor, extremely religious countries in the world that don't execute gay people, blasphemers or apostates, and some of them are Muslim. I don't believe that poverty and religion automatically and inevitably lead to religious extremism. Your points about Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq are completely valid but there are more than three Muslim countries in the world, if people in those countries want to take revenge on the west or support those that do i'm sympathetic towards that - this doesn't explain all the other Muslim countries that execute gays, apostates and blasphemers, unless they're just doing it to piss us off
The poverty part has been disproven. It's been consistently shown that the middle and upper classes in Islamic countries are more likely to be radical in their belief.
