Rapid urbanization and displacement drove migrants to Islamist welfare networks

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: Islamist groups built parallel welfare networks that outpaced weak secular state institutions; Egyptian Islamist militants were young, elite-educated, upwardly mobile first-generation urbanites; Islamist movements recruit modernization’s mobile young rather than the traditional rural poor (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Islamist movements recruit modernized youth, not traditional rural populations #complicates (0.75) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 306