The new Pew report is a sophisticated and deep report about the role of Islam in the Muslim world. The results of the survey show a high percentage of religiosity, especially in the countries were the Muslim population is dominant – at least - arithmetically. What we examine here is whether the historical transformations in every country in the postcolonial period reveal a common (till a certain point) trajectory regarding the social characteristics and whether an engaged “social religiosity” has been generated.

“Innocence of Muslims”, a very low budget movie without any artistic value, achieved what it meant to. The movie was condemned by all Muslims who felt offended and, led to demonstrations of Muslim population around the world. Further it was exploited as a pretext by Islamist extremists to stage terrorist attacks like the one that resulted in killing of 4 Americans including Christopher Stevens, US Ambassador to Libya.