"One curious note is that only the gulf countries fuelled religious extremism with oil." I think that depends on how one defines religious extremism. In the So

"One curious note is that only the gulf countries fuelled religious extremism with oil." I think that depends on how one defines religious extremism. In the Southern United States, Evangelical Christianity has ties to oil barons and oil money throughout the last 100 years. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/evangelical-history/anointed-oil-evangelicals-petroleum-industry/ https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/evangelical-history...