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Islamist (disambiguation)

An Islamist is a person who holds a set of political ideologies holding that Islam is not only a religion but also a political system.

Islamist may also refer to:

  • Islamist (term), a term often used to refer to Muslims who are politically active and push Islamic ideas of economic justice in the affairs of state. Islamic political movements have a significant anti-imperialist component so the term Islamist was originally coined as a pejorative as in "Islamist terrorists". With the advent of Arab spring revolutions the term has lost its derogatory baggage and is even used by some Islamists to describe themselves as in www.islamist.com
  • The Islamist, a self written book by Ed Husain's describing his five years as an Islamic activist

Usage examples of "islamist".

Azzam, by contrast, favored continuing to fight in Afghanistan until it had a true Islamist government.

In mid-1991, Bin Ladin dispatched a band of supporters to the northern Afghanistan border to assist the Tajikistan Islamists in the ethnic conflicts that had been boiling there even before the Central Asian departments of the Soviet Union became independent states.

Islamists carrying a suitcase nuke but in the process accidentally obliterates the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and a puppet who looks a lot like the late French deconstructionist philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Hu Jintao came third, counted as worse than the leaders of the catastrophic regimes in Zimbabwe and Guinea and the Wahabi Islamist totalitarianism of Saudi Arabia.