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Originally Posted by rubecube
I think it would also be interesting to see how those answers breakdown among age demographics. Obviously most ISIS fighters are young men, but I have hard time seeing the majority of Muslims who've grown up in a Western liberal atmosphere maintaining those stances.
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I wouldn't be terribly surprised to see an age trend, just on the intuitive basis that older religious people tend to be the more conservative ones. On the other hand, though, the majority of recruits to Islamist extremist organizations tend to be second-generation; in other words they've grown up in exactly those western liberal atmospheres. Which has been referenced as a reason that fears about refugees are overstated. So the liberal atmosphere certainly doesn't seem dispositive.