His preachings and ideas won him influence among Islamist groups in Algeria and Egypt during the 1990s.
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The constitution was drafted by an Islamist-dominated assembly in November and approved by voters in December.
Islamist militants have been battling Lebanese army troops there for the past three days.
To revert to Mr Holbrooke's question, Islamist militancy is not the only crisis of Pakistan.
There have been no reliable reports in Xinjiang of suicide-bombings, a hallmark of Islamist fanaticism.
Islamist militants control much of southern Somalia and have long been affiliated with al Qaeda.
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The prisons were brimming with Islamist detainees, locked away in dungeons where torture was routine.
But once the culprit turned out to be an Islamist, the gaze nearly fell away completely.
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Sheikh Sharif is an Islamist, which basically means that he's got a fairly conservative agenda.
Since then he has delivered an audio message in January 2006, again posted on Islamist websites.
PKK. Mr Erdogan is a moderate Islamist who wants to let the headscarf be worn.
His Islamist Shia party did well in the local elections on a relatively secular law-and-order platform.
Some of the guns, he believes, could ultimately make their way to Islamist groups.
Both Pakistan and Afghanistan are engaged in a long battle with Taliban Islamist militants.
In recent interviews he has sounded less Islamist and more of a Palestinian nationalist.
Somalia's government, backed by African Union peacekeepers, has been battling Islamist guerrillas for years.
Altogether, Islamist parties took control of a stunning two-thirds of the seats in parliament.
They were controlled by the militant Islamist group al-Shabab, which is aligned to al-Qaeda.
After his fall, a once-banned moderate Islamist party, Ennahda, went on to dominate parliamentary elections.
The Islamist candidate who was targeted, Mufti Syed Janan, escaped unharmed, Mr. Khan said.
Somalia's shaky transitional government, backed by African Union peacekeepers, has been battling Islamist guerrillas for years.
No one knows whether an Islamist government running the south will make the job easier.
In fact, Pakistan's generals have consistently employed Islamist militants as proxies, from 1947 onwards.
France's Defence Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said he appeared to have fought alongside Islamist militants.
Some have hardline Islamist ideologies and have become notorious for imposing Islamic law restrictions.
Former Mossad head Efraim Halevy has repeatedly called for talks with the Islamist group.
The Islamist group still controls most villages and rural areas of southern and central Somalia.
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Both leaders were selected for their connections to the Berber political parties and Islamist leaders, respectively.
The attacker came from the North Caucasus where Russia is battling an Islamist insurgency.
When Russia crushed the Chechen rebellion, the fulcrum of Islamist rebellion moved to Dagestan.
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