Least and most religious nations

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We had to face it as part of practical politics, because the Northern Irish religious divide was a major issue for most of my life. As Americans have recently discovered, you have to pay some attention to people who are blowing up your towns for their beliefs

That, however, was also politics. Catholics were oppressed.

Most of the new leaders of Muslim fundamentalism (and terrorism) are not poor and uneducated, as Thorne would argue: they're from the upper-middle class of the oil-rich nations (and of Europe's Muslim immigrants). They argue that they've been offered Western-style materialism, and found it worthless.

It is.

Myself, I suspect this has more to do with politics than religion. .[/I]

I think there is no religious violence that is not more based on politics that religion.