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The Fertile Grounds for ISIL Terrorism

Current advances of the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS or ISIL)1 in much of Syria and Iraq2 and the influx of thousands of “foreign fighters,” including from Europe, into the region,3 make a serious analysis of global Islamist terror support among larger publics around the globe a necessary task of comparative social science.4 In the spirit of the pathbreaking essay by the late Barry Rubin on the subject of misinterpreted, but nonetheless existing, opinion polls on Islamism,5 we look in this article at the available hard-core opinion data that point to the fertile grounds on which…