Islamist groups built parallel welfare networks that outpaced weak secular state institutions
Evidence
Islamic welfare organizations around the Muslim world have increasingly stepped in to fi the vaccum left by post.. colonial states as these states, under neoliberal economic pressures, have withdrawn from providing social services to their citizens. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 24 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
In Egypt by the early 1990s Islamic organizations had developed an extensive network of organizations which, filling a vacuum left by the government, provided health, welfare, educational, and other services to a large number of Egypt’s poor. After the 1992 earthquake in Cairo, these organizations “were on the streets within hours, handing out food and blankets while the Government’s relief efforts lagged.” … In these and other Muslim societies, Islamist organizations, banned from political activity, were providing social services comparable to those of the political machines in the United States in the early twentieth century. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 305 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Structural adjustment opened political space that Islamists filled with welfare services — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 339; Islamist organizations won support by providing welfare where governments failed. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 305; Rapid urbanization and displacement drove migrants to Islamist welfare networks (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Islamic welfare groups filled the service vacuum left by states under neoliberal pressure
#corroborates(0.95) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 24 - Islamist organizations won support by providing welfare where governments failed.
#expands(0.92) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 305