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'''Militant Islam''' is an approach to [[Islam]]hello 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 and/or prejudice to such use of the term.

(contracted; show full)n to be heretics, and thus used violence against other Muslims. When King [[Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia|Abdul Aziz al-Saud]] founded [[Saudi Arabia]], he brought the Wahhabists into power with him. With Saud's rise to prominence, Wahhabism spread, especially following the [[1973 oil crisis|1973 oil embargo]] and the glut of oil wealth that resulted for Saudi Arabia. The Wahhabists were proseltyizers, and made use of their wealth to spread their interpretation of Islam far and wide.

==Current movements==
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Modern Islam went through major political and philosophical developments in the early part of the twentieth century, but it was not until the [[1980s]] that it became powerfully militant in an international arena. The [[Khomeni]]st revolution in [[Iran]], though [[Shia]] in character, provided an inspiration to many radicals and served as an example that an Islamic state could be established, using violent and militant means.

(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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