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'''Militant Islam''' is a termcontentious term, often used by Western political commentators for what they deem to be excessively violent aggressive political activity byto describe the ideologies of groups viewed as participating in [[Islam]]ic individuals, groups, movements or governments. These Western commentators see such activity as operating outside the framework of [[democracy]].  

The term '''militant [[Islamist]]''' is often applied to movements using [[terrorism]] as a tactic.  The term '''radical [[Islamist]]''' or '''Islamism'''.  Is also so applied. terrorism]]. In fact, these two 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, sincthe there is more to being a militam has been used so widely in the print thand being a radical, and since it is Islam, itself, as a political movement, not some separate and Westerner-defined '''Islam-ism''', these terms are not politically neutral and should be avoided.

Among other things, they imply that there is a common agenda between [[Islamic parties]] who pursue Islam in relative peace, as one of many points of view in a [[democracy]], and [[terrorism]].  This is a common [[propaganda]] goal of those who see Islam, itself, as a rival to "the West"roadcast media that it is difficult to avoid, and so some elaboration of it is necessary.

Groups advocating [[Islam as a political movement]] are invariably responding to complex political and historical situations, usually with deep roots in the local environment. For example, the rise of the conservative [[Jamaat-e-Islami]] party in [[Bangladesh]] would not have been possible without widespread public reaction against the corruption of the secular [[Awami League]] government in that country. But this complex local political history is completely lost in the simplistic reductionism of terms like [[Muslim fundamentalism]], which simultaneously explains everything and nothing by blaming [[Islam]] for being the religion of the majority.

In fact, the application of the term Islamic militancy is so broad that it encompasses any kind of revolutionary movement in any Islamic country. Invariably, this means that it lumps together such a variety of nationalist, marxist and ethnic movements that it has no longer has any real ideological content. The only defining characteristic it has is that it is milarism in a Muslim context; the problem is that it explains nothing.

== Militancy as the defining attribute ==

=== No one doctrine ===

As scholars of this movement have carefully outlined, in a very great variety of works up to and through the [[1970s]], there is little tactically in common in the various movements that seek to apply [[Islam]] as a solution, or use its terms to rationalize their solutions, to issues in the modern [[Islamic World]].   The only two objective things that can be said about all of militant Islam is:  (a) they are militant and employ force or(contracted; show full)*[[list of Islamic terms in Arabic]]
*[[jihad]]

== Sources ==

*[[G. H. Jansen]], ''Militant Islam'', [[1980]].

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