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...

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Published in:National Interest no. 66; pp. 14 - 22
Main Author: Pipes, Daniel
Format: Article
Published: Center for the National Interest Winter 2001/2002
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