Typical marxist drivel... everything — EVERYTHING to them ties back to class struggle.
After 9-11 many senators wanted to increase spending on foreign aid to counteract the spread of Islam and terror in Africa. At that time, some borrowed Gen Patton's phrase to describe the Germans in WW 2 during the Africa campaign to say that the Muslims were going through Africa like hot shit through a tin horn.
George Bush was opposed and made many speeches saying there is no link between poverty and terror.
But eventually Bush capitulated and at the UN confab in Monterey Mexico in 2002, Bush announced the foreign aid increase. And later, after the invasion of Iraq, Bush announced an additional increase of foreign aid.
The intellectual argument is that poverty breeds instability and Islam feeds/grows on instability. And where stability exists, Islam uses terror to destabilize. The 9-11 attack was an attack with weapons of mass disruption to destabilize the United States.