They are resisting the incursion of . .
. . a foreign, monotheistic (thus naturally exclusive and violent) religion that has every intention of killing them if it can get away with it. A zillion cults get along pretty well there so long as nobody claims to "serve the one and only" and tries to kill everyone else (or convert by force as is being done in Africa right now).
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