re: Pew Poll from the Maher/Affleck

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Ok, so why are Christians, living side-by-side with Muslims in the same uncivilized cultures, dealing with the same poverty in the Middle East and Africa, not violent?

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In the Central African Republic, Muslims and Christians are both routinely slaughtering each other.

Wiki Article on the Anti-balaka

Because of a useless culture. Jews and Zoroastrians would be slaughtering each other under those conditions, too, as I explained. Islam is just a particularly effective vehicle for radicalization, and has exacerbated things by have a sort of natural stunting influence on the enrichment of a culture.