Islamist English

Meaning Islamist meaning

What does Islamist mean?

Islamist

— noun an orthodox Muslim

— noun a scholar who knowledgeable in Islamic studies

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Reciting Salman Rushdie at an Islamist Fundamentalist meet is crazy! Damn right it is!

He saw himself as an important Islamist thinker and a strong character.

In reality Zawahiri was the leader of an underground Islamist cell.

And then, in 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini showed Zawahiri that his dream of creating an Islamist state was possible.

They began to spread this new idea among the foreign fighters radicalizing the Islamist movement.

In the early '90s, in countries across the Arab world Islamist parties began to gather mass support.

At the heart of the Islamist vision was the idea that the Koran should be used as the political framework for the society.

In the early '90s, Algeria, Egypt, and other Arab countries were being torn apart by a horrific wave of Islamist terror.

The Islamist revolutionary groups killed thousands of civilians because they believed that all these people had become corrupted.

By 1997, the Islamist revolution was failing.

There were mass demonstrations against the Islamist groups by thousands of people horrified by the violence.

The main Islamist group in Algeria, the GIA ended by being led by a Mr. Zouabri, a chicken farmer who killed everyone who disagreed with him.

And in their reaction to the attacks the neoconservatives would transform the failing Islamist movement into what would appear to be the grand revolutionary force that Zawahiri had always dreamed of.

He was accompanied by Ayman Zawahiri the most influential ideologist of the Islamist movement.

I'm Lena Schneider, reporting from the Islamist camp in Berlin.

They were cops, actually. He told me you were dangerous, that you were an Islamist involved in the hawala.

Becoming the poster boy for Islamist Jihad?

Disenchanted imam, an Islamist kid halfway to the bomb belt.

Who, as we all know, is not your average Islamist terrorist bent on bringing down Western civilization.

Islamist persecution doesn't qualify for asylum, you know that.

The report concludes that the terrorist Karpov has come to Hamburg seeking to make contact with Islamist cells operating in the city.

The money from its sale was used to buy rocket launchers for Islamist militants.

I assure you Claude, I don't eat pork but I'm not an Islamist! - See, I even drink wine.

Two months later, they rent a house in the Woodbridge section of Detroit, and begin a surge of Internet activity on Islamist websites known to be recruiting for the Khorasan group.

Yesterday morning, Osman Ahmed posted to an Islamist website that he's going to change the world.

Reciting Salman Rushdie at an Islamist Fundamentalist meet is crazy!

Muatt Hutri. Commands his own Islamist paramilitary group.

It's not Islamist.

How's the governor plan to work with what will probably be a new Islamist government in Egypt?

Five months ago an Islamist terror cell-- same one responsible for the bombing in London the other day-- had plans to do some damage here.

They'll be meeting with Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord before moving on to the White House to appeal for more help in their fight against the insurgent Sunni Islamist group ISIS.

That there are links to an Islamist networks?

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He was an indispensable ally of the West in the fight against Islamist terrorism, culminating in Ethiopia's military operation in neighboring Somalia in 2006.

As long as the Saudi regime meets America's oil needs and fights Islamist radicals, it will continue to receive US support and silence - and hence its tacit consent.

We can dig into their family histories in strife-torn Dagestan, or examine, once again, the lethal appeal of Islamist radicalism.

The Spanish had grown so inured to acts of violence from Basque separatists that the murder of 191 people in Madrid by Islamist extremists in 2004 was met with remarkable sang-froid.

Meanwhile, propping up secular dictators in the Middle East with US arms has helped to create Islamist extremism, which cannot be defeated by simplysending more drones.

Airstrikes now would merely make matters worse by undercutting the FSA's grassroots legitimacy and aiding Islamist forces.

A sick man whose rule at home is being challenged by Islamist opponents, he decided that international ostracism and domestic troubles is too explosive a combination for his son, a spoiled playboy, to handle.

So it is untrue that the only viable alternative to unrelenting absolutist rule must be Islamist.

The Arab revolutions mark the emergence of a pluralist, post-Islamist banner for the faithful.

America's destruction of Iraq as a regional power handed hegemony in the Persian Gulf - whose centrality to Western interests cannot be overstated - to Iran's Shia Islamist regime on a silver platter.

Indeed, America's acceptance of Islamist parties in the region, from Ennahda in Tunisia to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, suggests that skepticism of Islamist groups may be losing ground.

Now, the Chinese government seeks international support for their domestic crackdown on the Uyghur separatists who they claim have direct links to the Taliban and bin Laden's Islamist inspired organizations.

The most recent example is Turkey, where a courageous prime minister has confirmed the secular (rather than Islamist) rule of law, sought to modernize the economy, and has kept the military out of the Cabinet.

Niall Ferguson, the British historian, cites scholars who attribute Japan's imperial expansion after 1914 to a male youth bulge, and who link the rise of Islamist extremism to an Islamic youth bulge.

Indeed, an attack would most likely increase America's reliance on unsavory Islamist rulers in countries ranging from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

By supporting Islamist rulers, the US is contributing to a trend evident from the Maghreb to the badlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan - Muslims killing Muslims.

American policy has also contributed to a growing conflict between Islamist and secular forces in Muslim countries.

Another Islamist movement, Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front, almost had such an opportunity in 1991, when it won the first round of a general election.

Within months, Islamist parties shaped by the Brotherhood's ideology had replaced secular dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, and seemed poised to take over Yemen and Syria, largely because they were the only well-organized political movements on the scene.

Unable to mount a political alternative, however, the protesters' rejection of the Islamist government served only to put the army back in charge.

Now that both the military- and Islamist-led systems have been discredited, an ideological vacuum has appeared in Arab politics.

The Islamist governments that have emerged from the downfall of America's puppet regimes are no friends of an Iranian nuclear empire.

India is certainly alarmed at the possibility of Iran developing nuclear weapons, not to mention its concern at the possible effects of Iran's Islamist fundamentalism on Kashmiri Muslims.

No one can predict the direction in which Egypt's Sunni Islamist president and parliamentary majority will lead the country.

In northwest Pakistan's Swat valley armed Islamist militants recently attacked one of the oldest and most important sculptures of Buddhist art.

At this point, all of them are under threat of destruction, thanks to the influential voice of the Islamist leader Mullah Fazlullah, whose father-in-law, Sufi Mohammad, founded one of the extremist orders.

Efforts by radicals to recruit and indoctrinate young European Muslims do not reflect the inexorable rise of Islamist - or even Islamic - influence in Europe.

Given this, it is not surprising that the increasing visibility of Islamist extremism has, by capturing the attention of frustrated young Muslim men in Europe and elsewhere, spurred increased violence against Jews.