Topic - Islamist

) is a set of ideologies holding that "Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life". Islamism is a controversial neologism, and definitions of it sometimes vary (see below). Leading Islamist thinkers emphasize the implementation of Sharia (Islamic law); of pan-Islamic political unity; and of the elimination of non-Muslim, particularly Western military, economic, political, social, or cultural influences in the Muslim world, which they believe to be incompatible with Islam. Some observers suggest Islamism's tenets are less strict, and can be defined as a form of identity politics or "support for [Muslim] identity, authenticity, broader regionalism, revivalism, [and] revitalization of the community". - Source: Wikipedia

Related Stories

FILE - In this May 20, 2012 file photo, then Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi holds a rally in Cairo, Egypt. On Monday June 17, 2019, Egypt's state TV says the country's ousted President Mohammed Morsi, 67, collapsed during a court session and died. It said it occurred while he was attending a court trial on Monday on espionage charges. Morsi, who hailed from Egypt's largest Islamist group, the now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, was elected president in 2012 in the country's first free elections following the ouster the year before of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Fredrik Persson, File)

Egypt’s ousted President Morsi buried after courtroom death

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this July 13, 2012, photo, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi holds a news conference with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. On Monday, June 17, 2019, Egypt's state TV said that the country's ousted President Mohammed Morsi has collapsed during a court session and died. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Egypt’s ousted president Morsi dies in court during trial

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin laid flowers near a St. Petersburg subway station that was hit by a terrorist bombing on Monday. (Associated Press)

Russian train bomb hits Vladimir Putin’s hometown

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, July 2, 2015, file photo, people carry the coffin for 1st Lt. Mohammed Ashraf, killed in Wednesday's attack by Islamic militants in the Sinai, during the funeral procession in Ashmoun, north of Cairo, Egypt. When Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi led the army’s overthrow of Egypt’s Islamist president two years ago, he promised to usher in new stability for the country. Instead, now President el-Sissi is facing an even tougher challenge: An Islamic militant insurgency that unleashed its worst violence yet the past week. (AP Photo/Ashour Abosalm, File)

Egypt marks 2nd anniversary of Islamist ouster with mourning

By BRIAN ROHAN and DAN PERRY - Associated Press

In this Jan. 21, 2013, file photo, Algerian firemen carry a coffin containing the body of a person killed during the gas facility hostage situation at the morgue in Ain Amenas, Algeria. The U.S. said the military launched an airstrike Saturday, June 13, 2015, targeting an al Qaeda leader in eastern Libya who has been charged with leading the attack on a gas plant in Algeria in 2013 that killed 35 hostages, including three Americans. The Libyan government and U.S. officials said warplanes targeted and likely killed Mokhtar BelMokhtar and several others. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul, File)

U.S. targets al-Qaeda-linked leader in Libya; unclear if hit

By Sarah El Deeb and Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Inside the Ring: Muslim Brotherhood has Obama’s secret support

By Bill Gertz

People hold candles during a vigil to mark the one year anniversary of the abduction of girls studying at the Chibok government secondary school, Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. On the first anniversary of the day 276 schoolgirls were snatched in the middle of the night as they prepared to write science exams at their boarding school in northeastern Nigeria, President-elect Muhammadu Buhari said he cannot promise to find the 219 who are still missing. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerian bishop says rosary will bring down Boko Haram

By Alan Holdren - Catholic News Agency

Women in traditional Muslim dress take part in prayers outside the federal courthouse before a jury found 35-year-old Amina Farah Ali and 64-year-old Hawo Mohamed Hassan guilty on all counts Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, in Minneapolis of conspiring to funnel money to a terrorist group in Somalia. Prosecutors say the women, U.S. citizens of Somali descent, were part of a "deadly pipeline" that routed money and fighters from the U.S. to Somalia. (Associated Press)

Islamist terror groups target Minnesota Somali refugees drawn by state’s welfare programs

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

An Egyptian soldier mans a checkpoint in el-Arish, 290 kilometers (180 miles) east of Cairo, North Sinai, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi told the nation in a televised address Saturday to prepare for a long fight to defeat Islamic extremists following a wave of attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula. An Islamic State-linked group in Egypt claimed responsibility for a string of bomb and gun attacks Thursday night targeting Egyptian military positions that killed at least 30 security force members. (AP Photo)

President: Egypt faces long fight to defeat Sinai militants

By ASHRAF SWEILAM - Associated Press

Cell phone footage captures the moment two gunmen shoot and kill a police officer on a Paris street during an attack on magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Islamic State launches social media campaign to capitalize on Paris attacks

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

TAMMY BRUCE: Saying no to terror as the new normal

By Tammy Bruce - The Washington Times

illustration on the international Islamo-terroist threat by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

ERIC SCHIFFER: Paris attacks begin and end with immigration

By Eric Schiffer

In this file photo released Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, by the official Saudi Press Agency, Saudi pilots sits in the cockpit of a fighter jet as part of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Islamic State militants and other targets in Syria. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency, File)

Egypt, Gulf Arab allies eye anti-militant alliance

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front militants in Syria, where Husan Dughman fears a familiar pattern: "removal of a hated regime, followed by descent into chaos" and final victory by extremists. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN, File)

Deja vu in Syria: revolt, chaos, extremist rule?

By Husam Dughman

President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference at the NATO summit at Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama vows to ‘hunt down’ and ‘dismantle’ Islamic State

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times