Religion was important to the development of the cultures of the middle east because many of their governments are based on the Muslim religion, also, many extremeist cultural societiest use the religion as a basis of their actions because they take it literally. For example, waging, “holy wars” or Jihads are taken literally by some groups in which they go on killing people believing it’s part of their religion or believing that this is what Allah wanted them to do. This is basically the motivation for corrupt middle east groups, Hezbolah, and other groups. On the more positive note, many of the cultures that are infulenced by their muslim religion cause many of them to migrate to Mecca annually or at least once in their life during I believe Rahmadan to give praise to Allah in their holy land.

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