God and Mammon: does poverty cause militant Islam?
The writer debunks the assumption that socioeconomic adversity drives Muslims to extremism and instead argues that the factors that cause militant Islam to decline or prosper seem to have more to do with issues of identity than economics. He considers the possibility that, in fact, it is wealth tha...
| Published in: | National Interest no. 66; pp. 14 - 22 |
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Center for the National Interest
Winter 2001/2002
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