Pakistani Muslim leaders support Christian girl accused of blasphemy

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10. People who have lost income over the previous 20-40 years

In such situations, people look to answers to why their income has dropped, many turn to religion, including not only Christianity and Islam, but Communism, Anarchism and Fascism (Among other "World Views). Most turn to those religions that give them a simple answer to why they are poorer then their parent's were.

Some times people switch from one to another. China, for example, went for a radical Christian sect in the 1860s (The Taiping Rebellion), then to a Radical traditional anti Christian sect (The Boxers) about 1900, then to Fascism in the 1920s and then Rural Communism in the 1940s. Germany did the same, Communism in 1919, then Nazism in 1933. Most only last a few years, then are either suppressed (as in the Case of the Taiping and Boxer Rebellions) or take over (As did the Chinese Nationalists in the 1920s under Chiang Kai-shek, and Mao Zedong in 1949).

Just pointing out, it is people whose income has gone down drastically over a long time period that embrace solutions to those problems based on dogma of one group or another.