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>>6797156
...which itself is perpetuated by radical fundamentalists and religious dogmatists, which itself is perpetuated by foreign domination and poverty.

I swear, poor countries have the most religious faggots. I blame the fact that western society has gotten to the point where goods can pretty much provide for everyone that religion has been slowly eroding into a cynical liberal atheism. The Middle East (or at least general Middle Easterners, not, you know the oil barons) is really fucking poor, so it should be expected that they would become deeply religious. This isn't something limited to Islam.

>>6612359
Not that anon, but it's kind of undeniable how much power foreign political entities have held over the Middle East and how both the US and USSR's invasions and subsequent occupations radicalized already existing discontent.

>>6586211

yep