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I was reading that the median age of the population in many of these countries is anywhere from 20 to 26. The median age is the age that divides the population (i.e. half of the population of any one of these countries is below the age of 20-26). Compare this to a median age of, roughly, 40 in the US or UK.
If you add into this, that many of these youth have been highly educated at the expense of the government (a form of buying off opposition using oil profits) you can see where a massive amount of discontent is coming from.
What I continue to find amazing is that a lot of this does not appear to be driven by the Fundamentalists.
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