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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)

There is some debate as to how influential the more militant movements remain. Some scholars assert that, as an intellectual movement, the simplistic interpretation of Islam as a non-democratic movement is a fringe that is dying, following the clear failures of nominally Islamic regimes like the regime in Sudan, the Wahhabist Saudi regime and the Deobandi Taliban to improve the lot of Muslims. 


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However, others (e.g. [[Ahmed Rashid]]) feel that the stricter and more democratic Islamic parties still command considerable support, in part due to their [[honesty]], and cite the fact that Islamists in Pakistan and Egypt regularly poll 10 to 30 percent in electoral polls which many believe are rigged against them.

''Certain of these movements are often accused of being primarily motivated by [[terrorism]] as a tactic.  For discussion of this accusation see the article on the term [[Islamism]] which is employed by the accusers who reject the rationale of Islam itself.  We do not attempt to compile a neutral list here.''

==See also==
*[http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-2967276362246845611&q=islamic+terror Obsession: What The War on Terror Is Really About (Google Video)]
*[[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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