Why not? Saudi money (not the Saudi government, but they are indirectly responsible) enables and sustains political Islam worldwide. Muslims in South East Asia have been practicising a pretty laid back version of Islam for centuries: No pork, no veils and mingling of opposite gender over a few bottles of booze may be looked down upon, but never a cardinal sin. All of this is changing for the worse because ME has been aggressively exporting their Medina theology for the last two or three decades[0].

[0]: http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/09/islam-is-a-religion-of-v...

Hey, where do I sign up? None of my geography classes talked about middle-eastern politics or sources of unrest.