Euronews
| May 17, 2013
Thousands of Nigerian troops have launched a military offensive against Islamist strongholds in the northeast. The push follows mounting violence against government and other targets by Boko Haram militants who want an Islamic state. Presid...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 25, 2013
The United Nations is sending a 12,600-strong peacekeeping force to Mali but France isn't ending its intervention in its former colony. French troops will stay to conduct offensive operations against Islamist rebels for as long as necessary, Franc...
Euronews
| Apr 25, 2013
Vladimir Putin's message to the US after the Boston bombings? "I told you so." In his annual Q&A hotline session, the Russian leader called for greater co-operation against terrorism, but said the Boston attack justified his hardline stance on...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 22, 2013
Pitched clashes in northern Nigeria between the military and Islamist militants killed some 185 people, according to witnesses. Rocket-propelled grenades and heavy gunfire bombarded the remote town of Baga, where some 2,000 homes were wrecked...
Ahram Online
| Apr 19, 2013
WARNING: Graphic Content. Clashes broke out on Friday afternoon following an Islamist protest against the judiciary at Cairo's High Court. The demonstration was called for by the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and other Islamist fo...
Euronews
| Apr 18, 2013
A French family of seven has been freed unharmed after seven months in the hands of kidnappers in northern Cameroon. The family, including four children, was seized in a national park near the Nigerian border by gunmen who demanded the release of ...
Associated Press
| Apr 15, 2013
Insurgents launched what appeared to be a highly coordinated string of attacks across Iraq on Monday morning, killing at least 36 and wounding more than 200, according to officials.
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 7, 2013
Deadly clashes erupted between Egyptian Coptic Christians and Muslims at a funeral for four Christians killed in sectarian violence, which also claimed the life of a Muslim. The funeral clashes at the main cathedral marked the third day of sectari...
Euronews
| Mar 23, 2013
Running battles and burning cars - these are becoming the common images of a post revolution Egypt. The latest round of violence erupted as several thousand opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed with supporters of the Islamist group. Riot po...
Al Arabiya
| Mar 13, 2013
Bashar al-Assad's once proudly secular regime appears to be embracing Islamism as the battle for Syria continues, Al Arabiya finds. A state TV report on the regime's forces was accompanied by background music commonly used by al-Qaeda, and Syria's...
— Aug 10, 2012 at 09:45 pm
An interesting discussion is going on these days among intellectuals: Is the ideology called “Islamism” now passé in Turkey? And, if so, is this go...
— Jan 28 at 10:28 pm
...of divine governance that has never existed in Islamic history.” The first exponents of Islamism — Egypt’s Hasan al-Banna and Syed Qutb, Iran’s ...
Islamism is a set of ideologies holding that "Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life". Islamism is a controversial neologism, and definitions of it sometimes vary. Leading Islamist thinkers emphasize the implementation of Sharia; of pan-Islamic political unity; and of the selective removal of non-Muslim, particularly Western military, economic, political, social, or cultural influences in the Muslim world that they believe to be incompatible with Islam. Some observers suggest Islamism's tenets are less strict, and can be defined as a form of identity politics or "support for [Muslim] identity, authenticity, broader regionalism, revivalism, [and] revitalization of the community". And following the Arab Spring political Islam has been described as "increasingly interdependent" with political democracy.
Many of those described as "Islamists" oppose the use of the term, and claim that their political beliefs and goals are simply an expression of Islamic religious belief. Similarly, some experts favor the term activist Islam, or political Islam, and some have equated the term militant Islam with Islamism.
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