I remember reading about some people joining ISIS for economic reasons, I cannot find the article, but this one makes the same point (that among the other reaso

I remember reading about some people joining ISIS for economic reasons, I cannot find the article, but this one makes the same point (that among the other reasons, unemployment is also a factor): https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2014/11/the-ultimate-fatal-attraction-5-reasons-people-join-isis https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2014/11/the-ultimate-fat... My point being: being a religious fundamentalist country doesn't require an almost totality of the population to be religious, but just the people who have power (weapons, money, etc.) to be fundamentalist... and the rest of the country to not violently oppose them.