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Terrorist campaigns and the growth of the Muslim population: a reply to Clara Egger and Raul Magni-Berton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2022

Seung-Whan Choi Open the ORCID record for Seung-Whan Choi [Opens in a new window]
Seung-Whan Choi*
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Department of Political Science (MC 276), University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7137, USA
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Corresponding author. E-mail: whanchoi@uic.edu
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Abstract

I am delighted to see that my study on the effect of terrorist campaigns on the growth of Muslim populations has intrigued Egger and Magni-Berton. After discussing potential theoretical and methodological shortcomings in my study, Egger and Magni-Berton conclude that there is no empirical support for the positive relationship between terror attacks and Muslim populations. Their approach of separating terrorism into Islamist and non-Islamist terrorism is an effort to advance the contemporary research on the nexus between terrorism and Islam. In this re-examination, I show that Egger and Magni-Berton's conclusion is based on two limitations: theoretically unfounded and empirically inadequate. After remedying these limitations step by step, I reconfirm that a series of terrorist activities collectively serve as an explanation for the growth of the worldwide Muslim population. Future research can offer additional evidence to understand whether there is a significant and positive relationship between Islamist terrorism and the growth of Muslim populations.

Keywords

Growth of Muslim populationsIslamist terrorismnon-Islamist terrorismterrorist campaigns
Type
Research Note
Information
Japanese Journal of Political Science , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 182 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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