Legitimacy and Religion in the Middle East

"Western and Marxist analysts of the politics of the the politics of the Third World have been primarily concerned with economic development, the organized instruments of the physical force, bureaucracies, class structure. and foreign policy. " While these are no doubt significant, they are not sufficient for explaining the level of political stability because they do not provide adequate insight into why people are willing to sacrifice their lives and their material possessions for or against a regime. As Hossein Razi says: "when the articulate members of a population are by and large satisfied with the government's actions in the areas of identity, participation, distribution, equality, and a sovereignty according to the norms they believe in, there is no crisis of legitimacy." People care mostly not how a government came to power but what it does. Why religion is such a strong link in Middle East? Because as Razi says again:" Because it generates the widest bonds of commonly held values in the region. By contrast, the family, clan, section, group, association, and occupation constitute sources of microloyalty, which in the absence of shared religious or nationalist values may generate destructive discord and conflict." Since one in every five inhabitants of our planet is Muslim, i have Muslim friends. I wanted to talk about legitimacy and religion, and i did briefly, but more important i would like to put it out there, the fact that not all the Muslims are radicals, and you cannot put all of them in the same category. Yes terrorism is a very known fact, but stereotyping can't only lead to hate and discrimination. Remember what happened in the Crusades? Can we blame every Christian for whatever happened? No. People grow up with different beliefs, depends on the environment they are, so we should respect different believes as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else. And if God exist, would he be racist? Would he believe and love only a certain group of people? If that's the God that each religion or ideology believes in, i question the notion of God.