Governments in general have continued to fail to deliver on their promises to citizens for economic development and social justice. Factors contributing to these failures are elite incompetence and corruption, inflation, high population growth rates and a lack of modern ideas of development and economic planning. These failures not only affect Muslim-majority third world countries, but also afflict rich oil-producing countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran. The wealth resulting from the oil boom in these countries has caused an extreme imbalance in economic development, widening the gap between socioeconomic statuses. This in turn fueled the divide between lower and upper classes and between Islam and secularism. Political and economic failures continued to have disproportionate negative effects on the lower classes, thus resulting in the negative correlation of secularism. This fueled the pro-Islamic attitude and the idea that the Islamic State would be better for the majority of people not only to satisfy their religious needs but also their needs as a country because they correlated secularism with the failures of their countries.