Population growth, not oil, sustained the Islamic Resurgence after the 1980s

Evidence

The impetus provided by the oil prices hikes faded in the 1980s, but population growth was a continuing motor force. While the rise of East Asia has been fueled by spectacular rates of economic growth, the Resurgence of Islam has been fueled by equally spectacular rates of population growth. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 319

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels Huntington’s core demographic argument — that population bulges fuel civilizational assertiveness — which recurs across the book.
• SEED: Angle: population growth as the overlooked engine of ideological resurgence vs. the media’s focus on economics and oil.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 319