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Egyptian intellectual Dr. Khaled Montaser said that while extremism was once considered to be the outcome of poverty or of one's environment, this does not explain extremism among Belgian or French Muslims. "There is a problem that we must acknowledge: our interpretation of our religion is in conflict with modernity," he said. While members of other religions, such as Buddhism, integrate into the societies in which they live, Muslims "are always screaming that they are the only ones in possession of the truth, that they are the best, the only ones to be spared the Hellfire." "We must admit… that there are elements in our books of heritage that incite to this," said Dr. Montaser, speaking on Al-Nahar TV on January 12.