Definitions

1. Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present.
2. Islamism is a global threat, akin to Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism, and Communism.
3. Islamism is a political movement, with its roots in Islam, that is nevertheless a thoroughgoing modern political movement.
4. Islamism is a political ideology derived from the conservative religious views of Muslim fundamentalism.
5. Islamism is an umbrella term commonly applied to a variety of Islamic movements that are actually quite diverse. (Web site)

Post-Colonialism

1. Islamism has often been described as a reaction to colonialism or, alternatively, an effect of post-colonialism.

Enemy

1. Yet while Islamism is the enemy, it's not what this thing's about.

Rise

1. The reasons for the rise of Islamism during this period are still disputed.
2. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, and with the rise of radical Islamism, Ethiopia again turned to the Western powers for alliance and assistance.

Buddhism

1. There are five world religions, which have formally been recognized in Indonesia, they are Islamism, Catholicism, Protestanism, Hinduism and Buddhism. (Web site)

Threat

1. The rise of Islamism as a popular movement was a threat to the Berber cultural movement for two reasons.

Government

1. Islamism is also often included on a list of movements that have deep implications for the form of government.

Hamas

1. Fatah's loss to Hamas in the January 2006 parliamentary elections, though, forced it to externalize its Islamism.

Related Topics

1. Modern Islamic philosophy, Islamism, Militant Islam and Islamic terrorism deal with related topics.

America

1. Yet, the issue is not just that America must not surrender to Islamism and that it must reject the defeatist policies of Non-Interventionism. (Web site)
2. The inconvenient truth is that political Islamism does not share these values with America.

Islamic Law

1. The goal of Islamism is to re-shape the state by implementing its conservative formulation of Islamic law.

Ideology

1. The ideology of Islamism was rooted in Afghanistan's anti-Communist struggle.

Social Movement

1. Al-Banna saw Islamism as essentially a social movement. (Web site)

Development

1. The development of modern Islamism was also both a reaction to and influenced by the other ideologies of the modern world.

Arab Countries

1. The Ba'ath Party and related groups have historically offered a secular Arab Nationalist opposition to Islamism in Arab countries.

Muslim Brotherhood

1. Wahhabism and the Muslim Brotherhood are two distinct forms of Sunni Islamism. (Web site)

Countries

1. But, it takes a special courage to speak out against Islamism when you come from countries and cultures that are spawning Islamism.
2. There are concerns that radical Islamism is also being imported by Somalilanders radicalised in other countries.

Islamic Feminism

1. Islamism, therefore, catalysed Islamic feminism.

Muslim World

1. The strength of Islamism draws from the strength of religiosity in general in the Muslim world. (Web site)

Middle East

1. The point at which these contradictory forces finally balance out could be decisive in the subsequent development of Islamism in the Middle East. (Web site)

Political Islam

1. The West needs to understand the threat posed by political Islam and Islamism.

Term

1. The term Islamism was coined in eighteenth-century France as a way of referring to Islam.

Frustrations

1. Like all totalitarianisms, Islamism is nurtured by fears and frustrations.

Communism

1. At the time Saddam was considered an enemy of communism and radical Islamism.

Socialism

1. Because of similarities between Islamism, socialism and communism, we see a merging in demonstrations among the supporters of the three. (Web site)
2. Thus Political Islam, or Islamism, replaced Socialism as the most promising basis for winning Arab hearts and hurting western interests in the Middle East. (Web site)
3. Like Pan-Arabism, nationalism, and socialism, which also emerged in Egypt at that time, the Brotherhood’s Islamism is at its heart a political identity. (Web site)

Shiites

1. Thirteen per cent of Sunni joined 19% of Shiites in expressing support for Islamism, in which few Christians and no Druze concurred.

Ayaan

1. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a fellow, is a former Dutch politician, women's rights activist and critic of Islamism & Shar'ia Law.

Religion

1. Differentiating between the religion of Islam, political Islamism, and its violent jihadi offshoots is extremely difficult.
2. The RG counts about 200,000 Muslims who regularly practice their religion, and about 5,000 salafists, of whom one quarter are involved in radical Islamism. (Web site)

Islamists

1. He was a secular dictator that only paid lip service to Islamism and curbed the Islamists at every step (harshly) as they were a threat to his dictatorship. (Web site)

Political Ideology

1. In 2007, however, Wall Street has been persuaded by Wahhabists and Islamists that political Islamism is a religion, not a political ideology. (Web site)

Fascism

1. After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
2. Islamism, like all of those other familiar isms — communism, socialism, fascism, etc.
3. Ideologically there is little evidence that fascism had much influence on the development of Islamism.

Islam

1. Many people in Islamic countries also see Islam manifested politically as Islamism.
2. Islamism grew as a reaction to these trends, and as a desire to create a government based on the tenets of Islam.
3. The media often confuses the term Islamism with related terms such as Islam, fundamentalism, militant Islam, and Wahhabism.

Islamism

1. Political leaders should regularly and publicly distinguish between Islam, the religion of Muslims, and Islamism, the totalitarian ideology.
2. The term "Islamism" first appeared in eighteenth-century France as a synonym for " Islam ".
3. Islamism usually refers to the drive to create an Islamic state, although the term is sometimes used to mean any political aspect of Islam. (Web site)

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