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...terest groups raise the specter of any Muslim presence, and definitely any Islamist thinking whether legal or violent, as a harbinger of terrorism and theocrac

Oh, p.s. David: I changed your reference to "Islamicist" to "Islamist." The former term refers to someone, such as myself--who is not a Muslim--w ...guous, but the term is widely used to refer to scholars of Islam, whereas "Islamist" is not, so the latter term is narrower and more precise as a way to refer

...Maghreb]], it is most often placed in Algeria. A number of other radical Islamist, transborder groups, have Algerian ties, such as the [[Armed Islamic Group]

...s were in Beirut in 1982/1983 which brought them into direct conflict with Islamist forces. During the early 1980s, Islamic militants took hostage a number of

...opia’s invasion of Somalia, which Washington feared had become a haven for Islamist militants. As of December 2006, training for the Ethiopians is coming from ...trange alliances with the US. Once eager hosts of Osama bin Laden, Sudan’s Islamist movement has since split, with the two factions now fighting a proxy war in

...through its actions the Bush administration has managed to exacerbate the Islamist threat while wasting resources on a prodigious scale—is not exactly novel

...exity of the situation are actions of non-national [[radical Islam|radical Islamist]] groups, and strategic tension, potentially involving [[weapons of mass de

...wal of the Soviets in the Afghanistan War (1978-1992), connected a current Islamist trend with traditions of the Durani Pashtun, whose traditional stronghold w ...he militia. The Taliban 
has maintained ties with other militant Pakistani Islamist groups, including the Sipah-e Sahaba, a virulently anti-Shi'a organization,

...ons. It first got to grips with secular terrorism, but found the upcoming Islamist terror much more difficult to penetrate. In the 1990s the latter became a

.../hamas-and-its-discontents}}</ref> Hamas, which had presented itself as an Islamist alternative to Fatah, has had difficulty in maintaining its religious image

While it is certainly strongly Islamist, wants a return of the Caliphate, and seeks Muslim unity, as in Michael Sc | journal = Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, The Hudson Institute

...ively secular organization with strong nationalism and anticolonialism. An Islamist movement that wanted to make no distinction between civil government and re

...s superior to federalism was a belief system, just as is the belief in the Islamist church-'''and'''-state model. When slavery challenged the belief system, co

...Taliban militia took control of Kabul in 1996, and installed a very harsh Islamist regime. Later, it invited Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda group, which est

In 2000, an [[Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot|Islamist plot to blow up the cathedral]] was prevented by German police. On July 6,

...urther damaged by a war in 2006 between Israel and [[Hezbollah]], an armed Islamist organization. The war ended with both sides claiming victory, and many issu

...ave Islam as <u>the</u> principal soure, which was unacceptable to the non-Islamist members of the IGC, as well as to Bremer and his staff. Sistani accepted a

...luding the USA, have said that Russia has tried to portray all Chechens as Islamist terrorists in order to justify the harsh measures used to try to crush Chec

...luding the USA, have said that Russia has tried to portray all Chechens as Islamist terrorists in order to justify the harsh measures used to try to crush Chec

...ncy]]. Tensions led to open clashes between the Chechen National Guard and Islamist militants, such as the July 1998 confrontation in Gudermes.