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Think Again: Islamist Terrorism

by Christine Fair and Husain Haqqani
(First published by Foreign Policy magazine in January 2006. Partially reprinted with permission.)

Pundits and politicians of all stripes are quick to offer their wisdom on what fuels Islamist terrorism. It just so happens that much of what they say is wrong. Poverty doesn’t produce terrorists, a solution to the Israel-Palestine problem isn’t a cure-all, and young Muslim men aren’t the most likely to turn to terror. If we are going to fight a war on terror, the least we can do is understand who we are fighting.

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