October 7 as Radicalization Inflection

A specific external event—the October 7 attacks—functioned as an inflection point that materially altered Islamist activism and sympathy in Western diasporas, emboldening public claims (prayer breaks, normative demands) and shifting local political calculations. This contagion operates through media narratives, campus and youth opinion, and street politics rather than only through overt terrorist plotting. — If true, the thesis explains a rapid change in domestic social cohesion and politics across multiple countries and reframes how policymakers link foreign conflicts to domestic integration and policing.