Euronews
| Dec 21, 2012
Police in Alexandria have fired teargas rounds at Islamist supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. The confrontation comes on the eve of a divisive referendum on the new draft constitution. The Muslim Brotherhood called the rally to decry...
Al Arabiya
| Dec 14, 2012
Opponents and supporters of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi took to the streets across Egypt on the eve of a controversial constitutional referendum. In Alexandria, clashes broke out between rival camps and at least 13 people were reportedly inju...
Aswat Masriya
| Dec 14, 2012
Egyptian voters are split ahead of the country's constitutional referendum this weekend, while the continuing protests and unrest are threatening to further destabilize the country's fragile economy. Lily Grimes reports.
Telegraph.co.uk
| Dec 11, 2012
A member of the Mali presidency, Django Sissoko, has been named the new prime minister after the former PM was arrested and reportedly forced to resign by the army. The development is a blow to international attempts to quash militant Islamists co...
BBC Arabic
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Mosaic
| Dec 6, 2012
BBC Arabic compiles exclusive footage from the streets around Cairo's Presidential Palace, where clashes continue between protesters and supporters of embattled Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. They are reporting that there will be no political s...
Democracy Now!
| Dec 6, 2012
The Egyptian army has deployed tanks outside the presidential palace in Cairo after six people died in clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi. Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports from Cair t...
Amnesty International
| Dec 4, 2012
The 14-month conflict between government forces and Al Qaeda-linked militants in southern Yemen was a huge but largely overlooked human rights catastrophe, an Amnesty International report finds. Ansar al-Sharia militants were responsible for summa...
BBC Arabic
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Mosaic
| Nov 30, 2012
BBC Arabic reports that the humanitarian situation is worsening in parts of northern Mali controlled by hardline Islamists. Many residents are questioning if the international community has serious intentions to intervene militarily and eliminate ...
Associated Press
| Nov 20, 2012
Three California men charged as "jihadist" plotters intent on attacking US military targets overseas by joining al-Qaeda and the Taliban were busted just before a trip to Afghanistan to meet up with their ringleader, another Californian, from Afgh...
— 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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