Least and most religious nations

[Thorne]

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.

For the record, it's not the leaders of religions, fundamentalist or not, that I claim are uneducated. It's the followers who are kept in thrall to those leaders through poverty and lack of education. And these leaders are telling their followers that Western-style materialism is worthless while using the products which can only be obtained from those Western nations. Keeping their followers from demanding those same products is another tool for keeping them controlled.