Muslim violence tracks a youth bulge that is now aging out

Evidence

By and large those movements do not get much support from rural elites, peasants, and the elderly. Like fundamentalists in other religions, Islamists are overwhelmingly participants in and products of the processes of modernization. They are mobile and modern-oriented younger people drawn in large part from three groups. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 306 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Youth bulges above 20 percent of a group’s population trigger nationalist insurgencies.; Youth bulges of unemployed young men drive Muslim political violence — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 736; Muslim youth bulges exceed 20 percent and fuel Islamist movements — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 322 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Islamist movements recruit modernized youth, not traditional rural populations #complicates (0.78) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 306