Islamists have asked the question, " If Islam is a way of life, how can we say that those who want to live by its principles in legal, social, political, economic, and political spheres of life are not Muslims, but Islamists and believe in Islamism, not Islam?

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

Saudi Arabia attempted to compensate for its loss of prestige among these groups by repressing those domestic Islamists who attacked it ( bin Laden being a prime example ), and increasing aid to Islamic groups ( Islamist madrassas around the world and even aiding some violent Islamist groups ) that did not, but its pre-war influence on behalf of moderation was greatly reduced.

Suicide or " martyrdom operations " are a lethal technique among radical Islamists, sometimes motivated by the much disputed explanation that " God will give " those who kill themselves in the path of jihad 70 or 72 female " virgins " and " everlasting happiness.

Although the government did not allow any legal opposition, Gayoom was opposed in the early 1990s by Islamists ( also seen as fundamentalists ) who wanted to impose a religious way of life and by some powerful local business leaders.

However, Islamists in northern Mali, citing shariah law, stoned an unmarried couple who allegedly had children together to death in 2012.

By 1920, Pan-Turkic Islamists had become a challenge to Chinese warlord Yang Zengxin ( 杨增新 ) who controlled Siankiang.

Exemplary figures of Islamic fundamentalism who are also termed Islamists are Sayyid Qutb, Ruhollah Khomeini, Abul Ala Mawdudi, and Israr Ahmad.

However, his policies of reform led to repeated clashes with the hardline and conservative Islamists in the Iranian government, who control powerful governmental organizations like the Guardian Council, whose members are appointed by the Supreme Leader.

There was severe disagreements on future path of Indonesian state, between nationalists who wanted a secular state ( led by Partai Nasional Indonesia first established by Sukarno ), the Islamists who wanted an Islamic state ( led by Masyumi Party ), and the communists who wanted a communist state ( led by PKI, only allowed to operate again in 1951 ).

In the first couple of days many of the embassy staff who had snuck out of the compound or not been there at the time of the takeover were rounded up by Islamists and returned as hostages.

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.

To many observers, Wafd merged as a much stronger party after this election, which would be counted that would once again attract liberals who were losing grip in the current political map to Islamists and other extremists.

Saudi Arabia claimed that smugglers provide the weapons used by radical Islamists who operate inside the kingdom and are the source of the explosives used in attacks against civilian targets, such as the 2003 Riyadh compound bombings which killed 35 and injured over a hundred.

At Asyut University, which was the scene of some of the most intense clashes between Islamists and their opponents ( including security forces, secularists, and Copts ), the president and other top administrators — who were Islamists — supported Gama ' at demands to end mixed-sex classes and to reduce total female enrollment.

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.

The first stage of the extension of the Islamists ' terrorist campaign to France began with the assassination of Abdelbaki Sahraoui, a co-founder of the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) who opposed attacks in France.

Furthermore, his denunciation of other Islamists as kuffar was not limited to the Brethren but extended to other dissident Islamist groups similar to his own who opposed the accommodationist position of the Muslim Brotherhood.

According to scholar Gilles Kepel this provided an object lesson that " invalidated " the ` phase of weakness ` strategy for the Islamists who came after Shukri.

The Hamburg cell () was, according to U. S. and German intelligence agencies, a group of radical Islamists based in Hamburg, Germany that included students who eventually came to be key operatives in the 9 / 11 attacks.

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.

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.

These attacks appear to have been carried out by a small group of individuals who formed part of the al-Qaida network: Islamists without formal backing from any state ( though there were and are suspicions that Al-Qaida was aided and funded by several Arab / Muslim countries ).

he crux of my argument is simply that America is in a war with militant Islamists that it cannot avoid ; one that it cannot talk or appease its way out of ; one in which our irreconcilable Islamist foes will have to be killed, an act which unavoidably will lead to innocent deaths ; and one that is motivated in large measure by the impact of U. S. foreign policies in the Islamic world, one of which is unqualified U. S. support for Israel.

Islamists were considered bulwarks against — what were thought to be at the time — more dangerous leftist / communist / nationalist insurgents / opposition, which Islamists were correctly seen as opposing.

Egyptian president Anwar Sadat — whose policies included opening Egypt to Western investment ( Infitah ), breaking with Soviet Union to make Egypt an ally of the United States, and making peace with Israel — released Islamists from prison and welcomed home exiles in tacit exchange for political support in his struggle against leftists.

The Rejectionist Front of the PLO allied itself with Islamists in a common opposition against the agreements.

The civil war pitted Rahmonov's neo-communist forces against a loose coalition of democrats and Islamists known as the United Tajik Opposition ( UTO ).

* 12 August, — deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia I. Zubov stated that a letter with a proposal to perform a joint operation with Federal troops against Islamists in Dagestan was sent to the President of CRI Maskhadov.

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 ".

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.

Rabbi Sacks also said that the new Anti-Semitism " unites radical Islamists with human-rights NGOs — the right wing and the left wing — against a common enemy, the State of Israel.

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.

Among Palestinians, opponents of the idea include Islamists, who argue that it would run contrary to the goal of an Islamic State and some Arab nationalists, who criticize it for going against the idea of Pan-Arabism.

Colonel Benabdallah indicated to me that if Islamists had committed numerous assassinations of political personalities, the Army had also engaged in this itself: it " struck back against all journalists, scientists or officials who gave support to the Fundamentalist cause.

" The OJAL is a militant group that supported the army in its battle against the Islamists and which perpetrated attacks against the Islamic communities.

However, it sided strongly with the military against the generally anti-socialist Islamists, and its leader, Abdelhak Benhamouda, was assassinated by the latter on January 28, 1997.

The MCC stated that " the OHRC has become the virtual organ of Canada ’ s Islamist organizations and that it has taken sides in the bitter struggle within Canada ’ s Muslim community where sharia-supporting Islamists are pitted against liberal and secular Muslims " and that " the OHRC decision had the finger prints of its pro-Islamist commissioners who have close association with the Canadian Islamic Congress.

The party then engaged in active opposition to the regime, and in 1979 participated in the creation of the National Democratic Grouping ( NDG ), with four other leftist and nationalist opposition parties ; it also, while itself renouncing violence, advocated dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood and other Sunni Islamists, who were then engaged in an armed uprising against the government.

In the book, The Devil's Game, Robert Dreyfuss does a more international analysis on the how the United States and especially the United Kingdom used Islamists as a powerful weapon against Communists and nationalists in the Arab and non-Arab Muslim world. He describes how the US labelled any nations leaders who were unwilling to work with the US as Communists.