OPINION

Integrate and treat a Muslim better, hurt Islamic State

News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 27/04/2016

» It is intuitively appealing to connect the number of fighters a country sends to the Islamic State (IS) with poverty and inequality. The more desperate and economically downtrodden people are, the more likely it is that they'll join a terrorist group, right? Wrong, recent research indicates: It's much more likely that the reasons for the IS's recruitment success are cultural.