Muslims

Does government treatment of religion affect intergroup religious violence in Western democracies? This study asks whether government-based religious discrimination against minorities and government support for majority religion influence religiously motivated societal violence involving Muslim minorities.

This study investigates the founding patterns of Muslim Brotherhood branches in interwar Egypt by analyzing their locations against detailed census data for over 4,000 subdistricts. The research employs multilevel analysis to examine how specific social and institutional factors influenced Islamist mobilization.