Today I found a wiki article that lead me to two important quotes.
Roger Cohen said:
What we are dealing with here is the paltry harvest of captive minds. Such minds resort to conspiracy theory because it is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.
Abd Al-Munim said:
We thought that by the end of the 20th century, the Arab mind would be open enough not to explain everything with a 'conspiracy theory'...the biggest problem with conspiracy theories is that they keep us not only from the truth but also from confronting our faults and problems...This way of thinking relates any given problem to external elements, and thus does not lead to a rational policy to confront the problem.
I'm saving them here for record purposes and because they couldn't be more fitting.