OK,. So take a religion like Islam, mix well with continual genetically reproductive induced mental illnesses (insanity, borderline personality disorders, OCD, manic depression, bipolar, etc., etc.) and what has the world received? You got it!! Global terrorism.
Believe it or not, back in the '70's with the Israeli war, Palestinian protests, hijackings, bombings, etc., I told several people in college, friends, relatives to take note of the look in most of the Arabs eyes and watch and listen to what they say and do, and you would see that there was something seriously wrong with them as a people. I could never determine if it were a loss of spirituality, loss of purpose, pure hatred, simple insainity, or all of it wrapped into one head. Didn't matter, whatever I saw and still see, it is there. I stood by that comment then, and I stand by it now.
Why is it that the educated Arabs and Persians and clerics for the last 50 years have not brought this out to their own people that crossing blood lines 1st and 2nd degree was not healthy for animals and that includes humans?
Of course some would say I'm racist with such statements, but, that would be akin that parent/child incest is OK too, well, at least speaking from a mental aspect. BTW, there're some Westerners too that carry that look for whatever the cause(s).
I have posited many times that religions merely reflect the societies & cultures in which they are observed. If Islam didn't exist, the ME would just create (or modify) another religion that manifests itself in the pathological behaviour we see today, including a cartoonish emphasis on male dominance, female subordintion, paranoia and failure.
The problem isn't Islam, it's its practitioners. Perhaps our greatest weapon against extremism will be discovered via gene therapy.