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'''Militant Islam''' is an approach to [[Islam]] that holds that the [[religion]] and its followers must be aggressively fought for on a political and religious level. Just as militant [[Muslim]]s are but a segment of Islam, so too are supporters of violence and [[terrorism]] only a segment of all militant Muslims. Designation of people as practitioners of militant Islam is often highly contentious. Critics of such designation often ascribe bias an(contracted; show full)

===More than "fundamentalism"===
[[Islamic fundamentalism]] is not, by definition, militant. In general, Islamic fundamentalists may have some degree of agreement or sympathy for Islamic militants, as there is likely to be some overlap of views between them. However, just an one may hold [[leftist]] views without advocating [[revolutionary]] [[Marxism]], there is a glaring difference between the two groups.

The use of the term [[fundamentalism]] 
to decry andcan potentially be used to disdain [[religion]] as a solution to problems of the modern secular world, and to describe an insensibly wide variety of movements which could be said easily to include.  It is worth noting that many aspects of a wide variety of movements, including [[Baptist]], [[Mennonite]], [[Quaker]], [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]], [[Zionism|Zionist]], [[Wahhabism|Wahabist]], and many others, came into fashion in the [[1980s]].  It had then, and still has, no integrity as an academic term, as the fundamentals in play in each such movement are different:  all theycould be said to be fundamentalist, and perhaps even "out of touch."  But regardless of the term's implications, what fundamentalists do have in common is resistance to a secular [[global political monoculture]] that seemed to be in ascendance at that time.

===More than "radical"===
The use of the term [[Radicalism|radical]] came into use likewise, earlier, in the [[1960s]], to characterize anyone whose opinion was not in line with those reported in [[mass media]] or held by major [[political party]] leaders.  This too had little consistency and implied nothing about actions taken.

(contracted; show full)*[[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

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