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I will agree, that most Muslim’s are highly educated. That is what’s so sad about throwing good life's away for a false profit.

Some are, some aren't. What is probably true is that there is more disparity in education between the most and least educated Muslims than there is between the most and least educated Westerners, even for those Muslims living in the West. For every highly educated doctor or other professional you'll find several members of the poorly educated "underclass," which is often more radicalized than the upper classes.

The situation in Muslim countries is even worse; the education that many receive is almost exclusively in the Koran, which like any religious education is not very useful professionally unless you plan to become one of the clergy.

The other thing that occurs to me along this line is that you have to be very careful about identifying someone's religious affiliation based on their ethnic appearance. I know a number of South Asians in this country who are Hindus or Sikhs - or even some who are Christians and whose family had been Christians in India, not simply recent converts. Many of these people are likewise in highly visible professional positions, and the Hindus especially can be hard to distinguish from Muslims from that area of the world. (And for that matter many Westerners find it difficult to tell the Sikhs from the Muslims - though there are a number of telltale signs if the individual observes their religion, if you know where to look. The Sikh religion is a syncretic religion quite different from Islam, and in many ways more compatible with a Western outlook).

Conversely there are quite a few Muslims who are of European or Chinese ethnicity, contrary to the stereotype.