US ambassador killed over a film

[eppie]

That wasn't my explanation. The historical causes of religious violence in Ukraine are much more complicated than poverty, or Communism. Bogdan Khmelnytsky lived 200 years before Marx, and most everyone was poor in those days, even in Holland or England, which were the "rich" countries of the day.

I don't purport to be able to explain it, but it's got to be more complicated than "Ukranians are violent people" or "Orthodoxy is a religion of violence." Or "poverty is the cause of discrimination," for that matter.

-Jester

It is, poverty and being less developed are facilitators. If joining a terrorist organisation is the only thing you can do to have some excitement more people will choose to do so. Especially if there is no justice system that will punish you for it.
If you are from a country where most people have no education and no real access to media it is a pretty logical step to think that you religion is the best and that (if someone tells you) you have to kill the other.

Only in more developed and stable countries you find larger groups of people that can think more as an individual and place themselves mentally in the position of another person. But this is still no garantee.