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'''Militant Islam''' is a contentious term, often used by Western political commentators to describe the ideologies of groups viewed as participating in [[Islamist terrorism]]. In fact, both these terms share many of the same shortcomings. [[Muslims]] opposed to violent political agitation, and especially [[liberal movements within Islam]], find their implicit association of [[Islam]] with militancy and aggression to be unacceptable. However, the term has been used so (contracted; show full)

Osama bin Laden, at least, believes that this is of necessity due to historical conflict between Muslims and Jews, and considers there to be a Jewish/American alliance against Islam. 
 Interestingly, tThis rhetoric has echoes of that of [[American SurvivalistMilitia#U.S. organized private "citizens militias"| American "militias"]] concern with a [[Zionist Occupation Government]] controlling the federal government of the USA.

== A cover story? ==

Some of these movements do not practice much of [[Islam]], a few do.  [[Hamas]], for instance, has both a social organization in the Gaza Strip, and a militant wing that has been responsible for a great many [[suicide bombing]]s in [[Israel]].

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==See also==
* [[Islam as a political movement]]
* [[List of Islamic terms in Arabic]]
* [[Jihad]]
* [[Qal3ah]], infamous for being the forums where announcements and discussions by Islamic extremists have taken place

[[Category:Islam]]