Among the important novelists of the 1980s were Rachid Mimouni, later vice-president of Amnesty International, and Tahar Djaout, murdered by an Islamist group in 1993 for his secularist views.

* Groupe Islamique Armé ( French for Armed Islamic Group ), Islamist group in Algeria

The cleric was protected by at least 100 fighters from Jund Ansar Allah (" Army of the Helpers of God "), an Islamist group with links to Al-Qaeda.

These groups include several mentioned above: al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya ( Islamic Group ) of Egypt, Islamist groups in Algeria, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza and the West Bank, and Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda group.

* 2009 – The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.

* 2001 – Members of Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an upscale island resort on Palawan in the Philippines ; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.

* 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.

Specifically, it is an Islamist separatist group based in and around the southern islands of the Republic of the Philippines, primarily Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao.

On 9 March 2005, Crowe revealed to GQ magazine that Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agents had approached him prior to the 73rd Academy Awards on 25 March 2001 and told him that the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda wanted to kidnap him.

The group opposed the Soviet-supported government, the following Mujahideen and Islamist governments, and the present United States-supported Islamic Republican form of government.

The battle flag of Al-Shabaab, an Islamist group waging war against the federal government.

Between May 31 and June 9, 2008, representatives of Somalia's federal government and the moderate Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia ( ARS ) group of Islamist rebels participated in peace talks in Djibouti brokered by the former United Nations Special Envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah.

The battle flag of Al-Shabaab, an Islamist group waging war against the federal government.

Between 31 May and 9 June 2008, representatives of Somalia's federal government and the moderate Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia ( ARS ) group of Islamist rebels participated in peace talks in Djibouti brokered by the former United Nations Special Envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah.

* 2009 Nigerian sectarian violence – an armed conflict between Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group and Nigerian security forces.

** War in Somalia ( 2006 – 2009 ) – involved largely Ethiopian and Somali Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) forces whom fought against the Somali Islamist umbrella group, the Islamic Court Union ( ICU ), and other affiliated militias for control of the country.

* Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the militant Islamist group Hamas, was killed in a targeted killing in the Gaza Strip in an operation conducted by the Israeli Air Force on March 22, 2004.

** In reaction to the Qana Massacre, an Islamist group in Egypt open fire on a hotel, killing 18 Greek tourists and injuring 17 others.

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front ( MILF ) ( Arabic: جبهة تحرير مورو الإسلامية, Jabhat Tahrir Mooroo al-Islamiyyah ) is a Sunni Islamist group located in the southern Philippines.

The Moro National Liberation Front ( MNLF ) is an Islamist group formed in the 1960s following the Jabidah massacre to achieve greater Bangsamoro autonomy in the southern Philippines.

The Black Hand Islamist group led by Shaykh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam begins a campaign against Jewish civilians and the British in Palestine.

Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq was founded in 1982 during the Iran – Iraq War after the leading Islamist insurgent group, Islamic Dawa Party, was severely weakened by a government crackdown following Dawa's unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

The Egyptian Islamic Jihad () ( EIJ ), formerly called simply Islamic Jihad ( and Liberation Army for Holy Sites ) originally referred to as " al-Jihad ," and then " the Jihad Group ", or " the Jihad Organization ", is an Egyptian Islamist group active since the late 1970s.

* Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki ( born Omar Hammami ), American-born member of the Somali Islamist paramilitary group al-Shabaab.

The Islamic Republic has also maintained its hold on power in Iran in spite of the US economic sanctions, and has created or assisted like-minded Shia Islamist groups in Iraq ( SCIRI ) and Lebanon ( Hezbollah ), ( two Muslim countries that also have large Shiite populations ).

* War on Terrorism ( 2001 – present ) – refers to several ideological, military, and diplomatic campaigns aimed at putting an end to international terrorism by preventing groups defined by the U. S. and its allies as terrorist ( largely Islamist groups such as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas ) from posing a threat to the U. S. and its allies, and by putting an end to state sponsorship of terrorism.

However, he was opposed to the demand that Hezbollah be disarmed, and insisted on maintaining relations with the Shia Islamist party.

Buckley was successfully rebuilding the network of agents lost in and due to the bombing of the U. S. Embassy ; after the October 23, 1983 Marine Corps barracks bombing, the Islamist group Hezbollah wrongly announced that they had also killed the CIA station chief ( they didn't yet know the station chief was Buckley ) in the blast ; their announcement was the first real indication that he was on a Hezbollah " hit list.

Ali Atwa ( born about 1960 ) () is a Lebanese national and member of the Islamist organization Hezbollah.

* Kata ' ib Hezbollah, also known as Hezbollah Brigades, a Shi ' a Islamist, Insurgent group in Iraq.

* Hezbollah Movement in Iraq is Shi ' a Islamist political party in Iraq aligned with the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq.

* Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah is an Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group led by Adham Barzani ( cousin of Massoud Barzani ), founded in 1983 and disbanded in 2004.

Al-Amoudi was described as an " expert in the art of deception " in a report by Newsweek journalists Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff, for expressing moderate, pro-American sympathies in his lobbying and public relations work with Americans, but then expressing support for Hamas and Hezbollah at an Islamist rally .< ref name = PBS >

The Hezbollah Movement in Iraq () is a Shi ' a Islamist, Iraqi political party that is part of the United Iraqi Alliance coalition.

Hezbollah suicide bombers in the period 1982-1986 were 71 % Communist / Socialist, 21 % Islamist, 8 % Christian ( 204-07 ).

Islamist insurgents rose in Saudi Arabia ( 1979 ), Egypt ( 1981 ), Syria ( 1982 ), and Lebanon ( 1983 ).

Fatah al-Islam is an Islamist group operating out of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon.

In 2006, during a visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Kuala sungai, Khairy, together with members of the ruling UMNO party and some members of the Malaysian Islamist party PAS, led a demonstration to the venue of the meeting where he handed over a memo to demand Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon and the suspension of the military operation there.

Islamist or fundamentalist attacks are also on the increase in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, where hundreds have been killed in 2006 and 2007, although in both countries not all of the attacks have been on civilians.

By the late 1980s, pan-Arabism began to be eclipsed by both nationalist and Islamist ideologies.

The 1990s were plagued by armed conflicts in the North Caucasus, both local ethnic skirmishes and separatist Islamist insurrections.

However, some Muslims both liberal and traditional are skeptical of the approach, viewing the construction of fields such as Islamic science and Islamic economics largely as propaganda created to further the Islamist view that Islam is an all-encompassing social system.

Also thought responsible was the underestimation of Khomeini's Islamist movement by both the Shah's regime – who considered them a minor threat compared to the Marxists and Islamic socialists – and by the secularist opponents of the regime – who thought the Khomeinists could be sidelined.

In addition, the country continued to drift towards civil war, with increasing Islamist violence in the regions surrounding Algiers and brutal military countermeasures both escalating the situation.

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ( IMU, ) is a militant Islamist group formed in 1991 by the Islamic ideologue Tahir Yuldashev, and former Soviet paratrooper Juma Namangani — both ethnic Uzbeks from the Fergana Valley.

In the 1980s Bourguiba made efforts to combat both poverty and a rising Islamist opposition, spearheaded by the Nahda party.

The party remained committed to the political process, arguing in favor of peaceful reconciliation, an amnesty for Islamist fighters and a return to democracy, while criticizing both sides of the conflict.

In general, Jamiat is considered to be a moderate Islamist movement that drew recruits from those educated in government schools ( both religious and secular ) and among the ulema ( in the north ) and the naqshbandi Sufi order found throughout the north.

The IPB was Islamist, opposed to both capitalism and communism.

Nonetheless, the United States used both " black " C-130 transports and back channels including Islamist groups to smuggle weapons to Bosnian-Muslim forces via Croatia.

Islamist writers Abul Ala Maududi and Sayyid Qutb both urged the formation of an Islamic vanguard to restore Islamic society.

The Iranian government, especially in its post-1979 Revolutionary Islamist form, is highly suspicious of all Christian sects not native to Iran, namely the Assyrian Church of the East and the Armenian Apostolic Church, both of which have been present in the lands of the Persian Empire since the 4th Century, A. D.

Ahmadzai formerly led a radical Islamist group which was active in the Mujahedin, and later in both the Taleban and Al-Qaida, but has since disavowed any links with them.

Qawas sees himself as a victim of a feud between the Islamist movement and Fatah. Human rights groups have criticized both the PA and Hamas for their detentions without trial, dismissals of officials and closure of institutions and charities.

This organization, composed both of foreign fighters and Iraqis, had a militant Sunni Islamist agenda.

Quattrocchi's death has been a highly divisive issue among the Italian public, which, despite widespread loathing of both Saddam Hussein's late regime and Islamist fundamentalism is mostly averse to participation in the Iraq war.

Its importance to Syria has lessened, both because the PLO has diminished in importance compared to the Palestinian National Authority ( which as-Sai ' qa boycotts ), and because Damascus has changed its strategy to supporting the Palestinian Islamist factions Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Following the 2003 elections, according to Al-Dustoor ( a Kuwaiti newspaper published by the National Assembly, July 20, 2003 ) 16 deputies joined the Islamist bloc ; 6 joined the Popular Bloc ( a populist group that includes both bedouin and Shi ' i deputies ); 4 joined the liberal bloc.

Commentators have both praised Milestones as a ground-breaking, inspirational work by a hero and a martyr, and reviled it as a prime example of unreasoning entitlement, self-pity, paranoia, and hatred that has been a major influence on Islamist terrorism.

Moreover, in both cases the four explosion locations were dispersed around central London in such a way that they could be reasonably said to have occurred " in the north, south, east, and west ," recalling the wording of several Islamist manifestos.

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the prominent militant Islamist, Dr. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, issued a fatwa, Defense of the Muslim Lands, the First Obligation after Faith, declaring that both the Afghan and Palestinian struggles were jihads in which military action against kuffar ( unbelievers ) was fard ayn ( a personal obligation ) for all Muslims.

The name originally derives from the " European Education Not for Sale network " and was first used by socialist and other radical activists at the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom conference in April 2005 who wanted to organise a left-wing pole of attraction opposed to both what they saw as the " right-wing " NUS leadership's betrayals on top-up fees, and groups on the left which they felt had betrayed consistent left-wing principles on issues such as both universal human rights and cultural relativism, and supporting workers and women against both US / UK " imperialism " and Islamist terror in Iraq.