Sentence examples for the islamicist from inspiring English sources

The Islamicist, far from being only crazy, is pointing to a weakness that we know - and refuse to accept - is really there.

The perception in the West of the hijab as a mysoginist tool used to subvert Muslim women is as over-simplistic, it seems to me, as the Islamicist reduction of their entire religion to a headscarf.

The Tavildara Valley was one of the strongholds of the Islamicist guerrillas who fought against government troops during the civil war that was waged in Tajikistan from 1992 to 1997.

In the mid-1980's, the Nuba, under Kowa's command, joined the larger war in Sudan that pits rebels from the southern part of Sudan, many of them Christians, against the Islamicist government, based in the northern city of Khartoum.

When Namangani took up arms in the early summer of 1999, he pledged to the local population and the Dushanbe government that he would not interfere in Tajikistan's politics or attempt to revive the Islamicist movement in Tajikistan; he asked only that he be given transit rights so that he could cross the Tajik-Kyrgyz border into the Fergana Valley.

The "truce" also weakens Abbas and the Fatah-led government in the West Bank among their own supporters who while opposing the rising religious fanaticism, believe they have to step up their militant and violent response to Israel just to stay competitive with the Islamicist movement.

Were the Islamicists of Mali really an internationally strategic danger, it is reasonable to assume the White House would be straining at the leash to do something.

"LGBT conferences have been cancelled and the Q! (queer) film festival was attacked by the Islamic Defenders Front — but the police don't protect us, because they don't want to get involved with the Islamicists".

One of the more curious aspects of the tit-for-tat violence is that Israel's response has largely been directed at the Palestinian Authority's security units, rather than at the Islamicists themselves.

The Islamicists can also expect the backing of representatives of traditionalist tribal groupings from the desert outskirts of Kuwait City, loyal to the Sabah family, in blocking efforts at modernization.

A common theory among Uzbeks is that the bombing was carried out by Karimov's rivals within the regime, but Karimov blamed the Islamicists, claiming that some of the bombers had fled to Pakistan, others to Turkey, and still others to Kazakhstan.