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In this chapter, we attempt to answer with the help of our data the question which political and social segments of the Arab population were especially active in the Arab Spring demonstrations. Also, we underline the still existing weakness of Arab Civil Society (overwhelming support for democracy but weak support for the structures of democracy). Variables of trust, nonviolence, some indicators of gender justice (especially equal access to political office) and intolerance toward homosexuals indicate some of the existing deficits in the development of civil societies in the region. One major other result of this chapter is that armed terrorist operations against the USA are clearly supported by respondents oriented toward Iran and Turkey, by the upper strata, by respondents distant from the Arab Spring, and by people supporting the Shari’ah state. The propensity to endorse terrorism against the USA is an outflow of an Islamist ideological conviction. Our terror factor has a positive loading with trust to the Muslim Brotherhood, and other indicators of common Islamism and sexism. Our results also show the alarming trend of terror support among the manifest electorates of political parties in Turkey.
The corresponding author for this chapter is Arno Tausch (arno.tausch@yahoo.de).
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http://english.dohainstitute.org/release/5083cf8e-38f8-4e4a-8bc5-fc91660608b0. To our knowledge, the first and only article to mention this unique source is Schwalje (2012). The author of this study would like to thank Dr. Hichem Karoui from the ACRPS in Doha for drawing his attention to this unique study. See also the earlier study by Tausch and Karoui (2011). This study analyses World Values Survey and European Social Survey data on global and European Muslim opinions.
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Tausch, A. (2019). Between the Arab Spring and the Support for Terrorism . In: Islamism, Arab Spring, and the Future of Democracy. Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91077-2_9
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