Calling anti-Soviet war a jihad recruited mujahideen for other regional conflicts

Evidence

Depicting the anti-Soviet struggle as a “jihad” was an effective way of securing volunteer mujahideen from all parts of the Muslim world for these other struggles, too. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 388

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Connects to The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s critique of how Western and Islamist frames both instrumentalize religious language — the ‘jihad’ label as geopolitical recruitment tool.

Related

• Extremist groups deliberately provoke Islamophobia to recruit disaffected Muslims (similarity 0.79)
• America’s low-intensity proxy-war tactics created the very jihadis later used against it. (similarity 0.78)