On 5/23/06, Philip Welch <wikipedia(a)philwelch.net> wrote:
On May 23, 2006, at 12:51 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
What is an "Islamist" exactly?
Wikipedia has an excellent article on this. I'm using the term to
denote fundamentalists who support things like terrorism and
destroying the Jews.
That seems like a very narrow meaning for this word.
It is pretty narrow. In general discourse, "Islamist" refers to a
rather sophisticated political ideology. But I'm using the term
provisionally.
--
Philip L. Welch
Mm. I disagree. The majority of usages of "Islamist" I see out in the
mainstream media and by actual people seem to boil down "a Muslim
terrorist who hates America, its allies, and its ideals", and only
rarely and generally in sophisticated, if not downright academic,
discourse, does it refer to the ideology descended in large part from
Salafi thinkers and others such as Sayyid Qutb.
~maru