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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)

Militant Islamic political groups are also active in [[Algeria]], the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]], [[Sudan]] and [[Nigeria]].

Much militant activity since has been directed against governments in Muslim societies, which those professing Islam as an exclusive political movement oppose because they are governments according to human law, not 
what they consider to be "divine" law.  

However, among most militants, a considerable effort has been made to fight Western targets, especially the [[United States]]. The United States arouses anger because of its support of the state of Israel, its presence on sacred Saudi soil, what some militants regard as its aggression against Muslims in the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]], what others regard as its neglect of [[Shia]] resistance in the wake of the [[UN-Iraq war]] (which got many Shia killed) and its support of dictatorial and corrupt reg(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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