are more keenly felt by the young, and as fundamentalists move into middle age they may abandon some of their earlier dogmatism, there is a ready pool of new recruits to take their place. Implementing economic policies that reduce the gap between rich and poor may help defuse a potentially volatile situation, but they will not, by themselves, remove the incentives for seeking societal solutions in Islam” (Hoffman 1995 p225).
In addition “Islamism depends for it’s following on the paranoid perception that the West is virulently anti Islamic. That perception is reinforced when western governments give there backing to regimes that systemically violate right of their subjects. At the same time, public opinion rallies behind regimes deemed to be under Western attack, however repressive they are. Islamic solidarity always operates negatively, rarely positively”