Originally Posted by highthief

You know, a lady was on the radio the other day and explained something about "radical Islam" in these dirt poor countries - many of the people are illiterate, and if they are literate in Urdu or Pustan or some other language, they still cannot read Arabic, the language in which the Koran and other sacred Islamic documents are written.

Thus, they are highly susceptible to whatever a given imam or village loudmouth tells them and cannot easily interpret these documents for themselves. And if the imam tells them "Teddy Bears cannot be named Mohammed" - then that's what they end up believing.