Islamic religious piety inversely correlates with attraction to violent extremist groups.

Evidence

According to Professor Olivier Roy—a world-renowned expert on French Muslims—there is actually an inverse relationship between Islamic religious piety and attraction to violent groups like ISIS. “This is not so much the radicalization of Islam as the Islamicization of radicalism,” Professor Roy once trenchantly observed about this phenomenon, according to the London Review of Books. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 476

Categorization

• XREF: This directly counters the ‘radicalized in the mosque’ narrative that single-nation Islamophobia studies of the US reproduce; useful for tying the global synthesis to Beydoun and Kumar. — connects to: 24 links Muslim religious devotion directly to homicidal extremism — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 525; Gallup polling shows Muslim religiosity correlates with rejecting rather than supporting terrorism — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 674; Muslim male violence is framed as an innate Islamic or racial impulse (+6 more)
• SEED: The ‘Islamicization of radicalism’ framing is a quotable counter-thesis for an essay on how both Islamophobes and jihadists benefit from over-reading religion into terrorism.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 476

Related

• Gallup polling shows Muslim religiosity correlates with rejecting rather than supporting terrorism (similarity 0.82)
• Radicalization is theorized as an exclusively Muslim phenomenon (similarity 0.82)
• Roy traces radicalization to individual trajectories and societal conditions, not religion (similarity 0.82)
• ISIS deliberately provokes anti-Muslim backlash to recruit new members. (similarity 0.81)
• Extremist groups deliberately provoke Islamophobia to recruit disaffected Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• Counter-radicalization conflates perpetrators’ religion with causes of terrorism. (similarity 0.81)
• 24 links Muslim religious devotion directly to homicidal extremism (similarity 0.80)
• Radicalization theory reduces all Muslims to presumptive terrorists (similarity 0.80)
• Radicalization discourse was built to serve counterterrorism policy, not science. (similarity 0.80)
• Explaining radicalization, not just identifying terrorists, is the harder task (similarity 0.80)
• Radicalization theories racialize Muslims by presuming Islam drives them to violence (similarity 0.80)
• Islamist groups arise from local conditions, not from anti-American plots (similarity 0.80)
• Radicalization theory treats Islam as inherently violent like eugenics treated races (similarity 0.79)
• Visible religious practice gets read as potential for radicalization (similarity 0.79)
• Religious participation, not belief, drives support for martyrdom (similarity 0.79)