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Militant Islam - A cover story?

Militant Islam - A cover story?: Encyclopedia II - Militant Islam - A cover story?

Some of these movements do not practice much of Islam, a few do. Hamas, for instance, has both a social organization in the Gaza Strip, and a militant wing that has been responsible for a great many suicide bombings in Israel. 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 th ...

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Militant Islam: Encyclopedia II - Militant Islam - A cover story?

Militant Islam - A cover story?

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.

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.