It's pretty simple in my eyes, religious studies is the only form of education for many of these people. They are dirt poor and living in another time, that we have difficulty comprehending when we have access to unlimited information and contradictory opinions. Add in some charismatic firebrand clerics who are pushing a largely political agenda and you find groups of people who will act on it. Honestly I think this is the natural progression of people who the world has largely left behind for the last 70 years. As they get more exposure to the outside world, they will become desensitizes as we have to things that we consider completely offensive. The top CNN comment on yesterdays Egyptian riot article was from a fellow living in Egypt who said the vast majority of people mock these overly sensitive zealots and that they don't reflect the overall public opinion.
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