Political Science professors in Texas recently produced a

(E) is the best choice. It says climate for terrorism is not dependent on the religion of the governement but the citizenry.

E should be it. others totally irrelavant..

OA is E.

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Explanation:
Step 1: ID Question Type and Task
A question that contains an apparent contradiction indicates a Paradox Question.

Task: Find the seemingly contradictory issue.

Step 2: Read the Argument and Extract Necessary Information:
The necessary information is the paradox, identify the paradox and pose it to yourself as a question.

Paradox: Why would the two groups disagree over the relationship between countries with religious governments and terrorist groups?

Step 3: Formulate an Answer to the Question
Formulate a resolution to the paradox (if possible).

Remember, the best answer provides a connection between the two sides of the paradox without changing or discounting either side.

Step 4: Eliminate Answer Choices:
(A) Eliminate. This doesn`t deal with the disagreement since the issue is the link, not just the religious governments.

(B) Eliminate. The location of the governments is irrelevant to the disagreement.

(C) Eliminate. This exacerbates the disagreement by saying that there is a link between the two.

(D) Eliminate. This only addresses one side of the disagreement.

(E) Keep. This explains why the two groups could have different viewpoints on the same scenario. While there could be a close correlation between countries with religious governments and terrorist ties, it could also be that the relationship isn`t caused by the government, but by the people in those countries. The government correlation could just be incidental.

Step 5: Identify differences in remaining choices
(E) is the only remaining choice and is the correct answer.

E is the only choice that clearly explains the rather glaring paradox!

Yup I vote for E.

GMATT73 - i like the method u use for CR.

The method that GMAT773 uses or posts, is actually the method taught by Bell Curves, https://www.gmat.bellcurves.com. Note that he prefaces the explanation with OE, meaning it is the explantion found with the question itself on the site.

The Bell Curves website has many questions that test your ability with various question types and provides structured explanations and a reliable process to attack the questions.

One more E. This is a tough question.