This makes a lot of sense. Henry Ford described how industry, by providing high-wage jobs, could actually make it uneconomical to steal or, by implication, wage war. History has proven that industrialization (1) made slavery uneconomical and (2) eliminated the need to use animals for fur. Animal rights, other than those for pets, would have been inconceivable before the invention of synthetic fur substitutes like Thinsulate.

The problem is, of course, when your "holy men" have nothing to offer but jihad and religious superstition, high-wage jobs will be in short supply.

I'm just quoting a philosopher's book title: everybody, anybody wants to "work" but work has not the same meaning for everybody and anybody. Middle East has always been a mess, since the Brits put the Hebrews there, and will always be a mess until the big economies will depend on oil, and are dependent on Middle East and its connected Powers. Let's walk on solid ground, it's just like a kind of mafia: it's very, very difficult to say who's started first; the buyer or the seller? Both have their own needs to satisfy.