Terrorist campaigns and the growth of the Muslim population: a reply

Abstract A recently published paper in this journal (Choi, 2021) establishes a statistical link between, on the one hand, Islamist terrorist campaigns – including attacks and online propaganda and, other growth of Muslim population. The author explains result by stating that successful lead some individuals to convert Islam. In commentary, we intend reply article focusing impact religious conversion. We first show Choi's results suffer from theoretical flaws failure comprehensively unpack between violence conversion methodological shortcomings focus all groups over period where were rare. This leads us replicate analysis distinguishing non-Islamist terror more adequate timeframe. By doing so, no longer find empirical support for relationship However, our analyses suggest such hypothesis may hold but only contexts level intensity political are high.