" Islamists " who have spoken out against the use of the term insisting they are merely " Muslims ", include Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual mentor of Hizbullah, and Abbassi Madani, leader of the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front.

Islamists have, at least at times, defined themselves as " Islamiyyoun / Islamists " to differentiate themselves from " Muslimun / Muslims ".

Islamists in Egypt and other Muslim countries have been described as " not politically dominant today, but ... extremely influential.

Even if the Islamists never come to power, they have transformed their countries.

Islamism, or elements of Islamism, have been criticised for: repression of free expression and individual rights, rigidity, hypocrisy, lack of true understanding of Islam, misinterpreting the Quran and Sunnah, and for innovations to Islam ( bid ‘ ah ), notwithstanding Islamists ' proclaimed opposition to any such innovation.

Ironically, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and in Europe has not embraced his vision of armed jihad, something for which they have been denounced by more radical Islamists.

Religious or sectarian attacks in situations where Islamists are active have been particularly serious following 2004.

Some contemporary Islamists have succeeded in replacing the greater jihad, the fight against desires, with the lesser jihad, the holy war to establish, defend and extend the Islamic state.

As of July 17, 2012, the Tuareg rebels have since been pushed out by their allies, the Islamists, Ansar Dine, and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ( A. Q. I. M .).

" The Islamists in Timbuktu have destroyed about a half-dozen venerable above-ground tombs of revered holy men, proclaiming the tombs contrary to Shariah.

In 2002 the Hezb-e Islami is reported to have split, with the hard-line Islamists, including Kashmir Khan, remaining with the party's leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

The Bab al-Tabbaneh – Jabal Mohsen clashes between anti-Assad Sunni Islamists and pro-Assad Alawites have haunted Tripoli for decades, and most of the Christian population fled during the Lebanese civil war.

Islamists may not control parliaments or government palaces, but they have occupied the popular imagination.

Mullahs have frequently been involved in politics, but only recently have they actually taken power, when Islamists seized power in Iran in 1979, and later, in Afghanistan under the Taliban.

Although ultimately only the Lebanese Islamists succeeded, other activities have had more long term impact.

Executive members of Wafd have criticized the cooperation of the secular party with the Islamists.

" In recent years his ideas have been embraced by radical Islamists groups while the Muslim Brotherhood has tended to serve as the official voice of Islamist moderation.

Both Islamists and Christian evangelicals have invoked the figure of Hubal in the ideological struggles of the post Cold War era.

Harsh repressive measures by the Egyptian government and the unpopularity of the killing of foreign tourists have reduced the group's profile in recent years but the movement retains popular support among Egyptian Islamists who disapprove of the secular nature of Egypt's society and peace treaty with Israel.

Islamists have claimed that such unrestricted free speech has led to the proliferation of pornography, immorality, secularism, homosexuality, feminism, and many other ideas that Islamists often oppose.

At the " Muslimer i Dialog " conference in Copenhagen in September 2005, Ridley was asked if she didn't see it as a problem that militant Islamists distribute recruiting videos of Iraqi insurgents killing hostages.

The collapse of the Soviet Union itself in 1991, was seen by many Islamists, including Bin Laden, as the defeat of a superpower at the hands of Islam, the $ 6 billion in aid given by the US to the mujahideen having nothing to do with the victory.

Refuges, in the 92, 000-person refugee camp at Mbera, Mauritania, describe the Islamists as " intent on imposing an Islam of lash and gun on Malian Muslims.

It is claimed the works of counter-enlightenment philosophers such as Heidegger, along with Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph de Maistre, influenced Iran's Shia Islamists, notably Ali Shariati, in constructing the ideological foundations of the Iranian Revolution and modern political Islam.

They are as anathema to true Christians as the Islamists are to true Islam.

Gaffney was an executive producer for the documentary Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center.

* C-SPAN Q & A interview with Gaffney about Islam vs. Islamists, June 3, 2007

" He distinguishes between mainstream Islamists and Fundamentalists, saying a fundamentalist is " a political individual " in search of a " more original Islam ," while the Islamist is pursuing a political agenda.

Not surprisingly, many aspects of Islamic politics are subject to much disagreement and contention between different interpretations, particularly between conservative Islamists and liberal movements within Islam.

Islamists claim that the origins of Islam as a political movement are to be found in the life and times of Islam's prophet, Muhammad and his successors, ( depending on the Islamist ).

** Green, considered the holy colour of Islam, is also used by some Islamists, such as Hamas.

Transnational Islamist ideology, specifically of the militant Islamists, assert that Western policies and society are actively anti-Islamic, or as it is sometimes described, waging a " war against Islam ".

Islamists often identify what they see as a historical struggle between Christianity and Islam, dating back as far as the Crusades, among other historical conflicts between practitioners of the two respective religions.

Leading Islamists such as Sayyid Qutb, Abul Ala Maududi, and Ayatollah Khomeini all stressed their belief that a return to traditional Sharia law would make Islam united and strong again.

New challenges Christians face in Ethiopia include the Islamic fundamentalism movement mostly coming from radical Islamists or followers of an extreme form of Wahhabist Islam teachings coming from Saudi Arabia via Muslim funded projects & NGOs.

Many Islamists and Arabs, and a few leftists, saw the military campaigns as battles in a religious war — a crusade -- against Islam.

He clearly implies that this coalition could go on to embrace terrorism, paraphrasing Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the Venezuelan terrorist known as " Carlos the Jackal " to the effect that " Islam is the only force capable of persuading large numbers of people to become ' volunteers ' for suicide attacks against the US ," and directly quoting him, " Only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the US.

Sufi Islam is a sore point with the ulama and more importantly with Islamists, such as Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi Muslims.

In addition, Islamists condemned the orthodox as " pulpit parrots " committed to a formalist practice of Islam but not to its spirit.

In Uzbekistan, there has been longstanding opposition to President Islam Karimov, from liberals and Islamists.

: For Islamists, the primary threat of the West is cultural rather than political or economic.

* Ibn Taymiyyah, a Syrian Islamic jurist during the 13th and 14th centuries who is often quoted by contemporary Islamists.

* " Somali Islamists are gone – so " khat " is back!

Islamists often talk of " revolution " and believe " that the society will be Islamized only through social and political action: it is necessary to leave the mosque ..." Fundamentalists are uninterested in revolution, less interested in " modernity or by Western models in politics or economics ," and less willing to associate with non-Muslims.

The continuity is apparent not only in these targets but also the participants: the same individuals who followed Nasser or Marx in the 1960s are Islamists today.

The Russian government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported that Basayev was an agent of GRU, and another publication by journalist Boris Kagarlitsky said that " It is maintained, for example that Shamil Basayev and his brother Shirvani are long-standing GRU agents, and that all their activities were agreed, not with the radical Islamists, but with the generals sitting in the military intelligence offices.

His predecessor Ahmed Ben Bella ( 1962 – 65 ) was more committed to the Islamic component of the regime, although always viewed as more of an Arab nationalist than an Islamic activist ( and he remains far removed from what is today referred to as Algeria's Islamists ).

Charlotte Knobloch, the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said " joint hatred of everything Jewish is unifying neo-Nazis and Islamists.

The BSF claims that the barrier's main purpose is to check illegal immigration to India, and prevent cross-border terrorism from Islamists.

It is ridiculous to suggest that radical Islamists don't care about the Palestine issue .— September 9, 2004

One intelligence official commented on the threat against the United States from British Islamists: ' The fear is that something like this would not just kill people but cause a historic rift between the US and the UK.

He is regarded as an " example of the axis between right-wing extremists and Islamists " and one of the more interesting figures on the British neo-Nazi scene since the 1970s.

He is strongly opposed to limitations on free speech, and argues in favor of the rights of everyone, including racists, Nazis and radical Islamists to make whatever political statements they want.

His work is coming under increasing attack in Europe from political Islamists, and many of his novels ( Haji Aqa in particular ) are no longer stocked in some French bookshops and libraries.

While many leftists have happily worked with Arab or Muslim groups in opposition to perceived U. S. or Israeli imperialism, alliances between leftists and Islamists are relatively unusual, and Taheri's sole example of a leftist actually praising Islamist terrorists is from Carlos the Jackal, a terrorist himself.

Syd is an extreme manic depressive, who becomes suicidal over minor occurrences and then attempts to commit suicide in various ways that are often surreal, topical and farcical ; e. g. in one strip he draws what he thinks is a cartoon of Muhammad and shows it to a group of fanatical Islamists, hoping they will murder him, but he then realises he has actually drawn a picture of Muhammad Ali.