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> Things are also confounded by the fact that most of these people are heavily theologically indoctrinated, making social integration and upward mobility effectively impossible

This is when your biases are walking uninvited into a discussion about data.

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Pointing out that religious fundamentalists don't integrate well is not a good example of "bias".

That you believe a majority are religious fundementalist is bias

Pew research does per-country religious belief surveys. I think you will find it very enlightening to look up the religious beliefs of the average Syrian.

Can you give a link to the results?

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi... (no Syria data)

http://english.dohainstitute.org/file/Get/40ebdf12-8960-4d18...

And can you tell me what makes someone a refugee? Whether an average refugee is ideologically/culturally identical to the average non-refugee from that country? And how about a refugee who's choosing to go live in a country very different from their own?

Pointing us to "per-country religious belief surveys" is incredibly simplistic.

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