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 Militant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Journalists often use militant as a neutral term for soldiers who do not belong to an established military.
Militants may fill their ranks either by enlistment or by conscription.
Militant Islam - Used by Western political commentators to describe the ideologies of groups viewed as participating in Islamic terrorism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Militant   (1425 words)

  
 Militant Tendency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Militant, who claimed to be nothing more than readers of a newspaper, were alleged to be members of a Leninist political party, with an elected central committee and an internal regime based on democratic centralism.
Many Labour figures saw the Militant tendency as a primary reason for their "loony left" image, as portrayed by the right-wing press, although most of the councils attacked as 'loony' were in fact influenced by the soft-left ideas of Tribune.
Militant reacted to the continued witch hunt by standing Lesley Mahmood as a candidate against Kilfoyle in the 1991 Knowsley parliamentary by-election, giving the Labour Party the further excuse to extend its purges.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Militant_Tendency   (976 words)

  
 Militant Islam Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Militant Islam is a term used by Western political commentators what they deem to be excessively violent aggressive political activity by Islamic individuals, groups, movements or governments.
As scholars of this movement have carefully outlined, in a very great variety of works up to and through the 1970s, there is little tactically in common in the various movements that seek to apply Islam as a solution, or use its terms to rationalize their solutions, to issues in the modern Islamic World.
Militant Islamic political groups are also active in Algeria, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Sudan and Nigeria.
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/militant_islam.html   (2150 words)

  
 Militant at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Militant is deemed to be a neutral term, whereas terrorist clearly indicates that the behavior of the individual or organization is reprehensible regardless of the motivations for such behavior.
Fundementalist church militants are engaged in a constant warfare against the Christian church's enemies (though "fundamentalism" is not, by definition, militant).
Militant is often used in relation with Palestinians who express intentions to commit, or support, unlawful violent actions on behalf of Palestinian nationalism and statehood or in attempts to anhillilate Israel.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Militant.html   (714 words)

  
 The Rise of Militant: Towards Expulsions
Militant's warning that the witch-hunt was linked to the attempt to shift Labour Party policy to the right was borne out by the preamble to the publication of Labour's Programme for 1982.
Militants growth in support amongst Black and Asian youth was reflected in the LPYS Black Youth conference which took place in July and attracted 130 to the event organised at County Hall in London.
Militant advocates that Labour MPs should be prepared to represent the labour movement and the working class on the average wage of a skilled worker, plus legitimate expenses.
www.socialistparty.org.uk /militant/ch21.htm   (4350 words)

  
 Militant - Encyclopedia Dramatica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
To the militant it's not enough to just associate with the like-minded.
Militants give a bad name to the normal (meaning non-sociopathic) people who share their beliefs.
Vegans, the childfree, Linux users, atheists, feminists, christians, and whatever all get their bad reputation from their militant members.
www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Militant   (70 words)

  
 God and Mammon: Does Poverty Cause Militant Islam? - article by Daniel Pipes
Militant Islam (or Islamism) is not a response to poverty or impoverishment; not only are Bangladesh and Iraq not hotbeds of militant Islam, but militant Islam has often surged in countries experiencing rapid economic growth.
Indeed, the typical cadre in a militant Islamic party is an engineer in his forties born in a city to parents who had moved from the countryside.
Militant Islam flourishes in the member states of the European Union and in North America, where Muslims as a group enjoy a standard of living higher than the national averages.
www.danielpipes.org /article/104   (2964 words)

  
 Terrorism and Militant Islam
The first modern use of militant Islam was in the 19th century, as a reaction against colonialist rule in the Middle East.
The second modern use of militant Islam was in the 1960's and 1970's, as a tool to deflect communism and socialism in the Arab world, which was espoused by Egyptian ruler Gamel Abdul Nasser and his followers.
Militant Islamists gain their popularity through leveraging nationalist and religious pride, expanding on romantic notions within the Arab and Islamic culture, capitalizing on unmet expectations of the general population in the Middle East that has not benefited from globalization, and promising salvation and reward through increased piety.
www.hadassah.org /education/content/HotTopics/Terror/islam.htm   (1847 words)

  
 Militant
The Militant began building a worker's international in 1975, and today the Socialist Party is affiliated to the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), which fights for socialism in 35 countries world wide.
Written by Peter Taaffe and published in 1995, The Rise of Militant is the first real account of Militant, its ideas, organisation and the role of prominent public figures associated with it, written by its leading exponent for over40 years.
In the course of such movements the ideas of Militant, which have already given a glimpse of what is possible for the British working class, will become the political weapons through which the labour movement and the working class will carve out a new world.
www.militant.org.uk   (2773 words)

  
 Smoke out 'militant Islam,' Pipes says
The United States’ war on terror should instead be a war on militant Islam, and the government must do a better job of articulating its goals—according to Daniel Pipes, who spoke to a crowd of about 200 in the law school’s Tull Auditorium, Monday night, Feb. 17.
Defining militant Islam as an ideology that has a vision of a utopian society achieved by taking over governments and applying the aspects of Islam—he used the example of the Taliban in Afghanistan—Pipes compared militant Islam to Nazism and Marxist-Leninism, saying it was “one of the three great totalitarian movements of the 20th century.”
Pipes said terrorism is merely a tool used by militant Islamists to achieve their goals; therefore, a “war on terror”; is misguided.
www.emory.edu /EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2003/February/erFeb.24/2_24_03pipes.html   (524 words)

  
 The Editorial of the first Militant newspaper
The MILITANT is being published at the present time because of the need to provide a conscious socialist lead for the labour movement, particularly the Young Socialists, in face of the problems that loom before us.
MILITANT will endeavour to seriously gather the facts and arguments to provide the ammunition for this struggle to rearm the labour movement.
But this is the only one which gives an authentic account of how Militant played such a prominent role in Liverpool in the 1980's and the successful battle to defeat the Poll Tax.
www.militant.org.uk /editorial.html   (1362 words)

  
 Militant | Ectio.us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Pueblo Chieftain - BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at a policeman?s home northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing his four children and his brother and raising to at least 23 the number of Iraqis killed in attacks this weekend.
ABC News - GAZA (Reuters) - Militant groups pledged on the eve of Palestinian elections to prevent any attempt to disrupt voting in the poll, which could usher the powerful Hamas movement into government for the first time.
Pueblo Chieftain - GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Thousands of police guarded ballot boxes Tuesday and rival militants pledged not to disrupt voting on the eve of the first Palestinian parliament election in a decade - a cliffhanger vote on whether to pursue peace or...
ectio.us /news/militant   (448 words)

  
 Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes -- Capitalism Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Almost simultaneous with that analysis, Bernard Lewis argued that militant Islam is engaged in no less than a "clash of civilizations" with the West, coining a phrase that three years later Samuel Huntington would make famous as the title of an article (and later a book).
We hear disproportionately from militant Islam, but there exists a credible, moderate Islam, which must play a critical role if Muslims are ever wholeheartedly to join the modern world.
As a result, almost all the national Muslim organizations have flocked to his side; I note that their solidarity was with a man who was twice on the FBI's most-wanted list, not with the orphans of the deceased police officer, and argue that this shows the extremist nature of these organizations.
www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=2382   (3067 words)

  
 Tutakai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
But their political views, while naescent, will remain moderate and they will share your confusion at the inability of the extremists to see common sense even when it is kicking them in the face.
When in an environment dominated by liberals, the role of the militant moderate is to work to force some consideration of and engagement with conservative arguments.
Given the extreme polarization of the political classes and the vitriol that is frequently dished out against dissenters who are (nearly always) perceived to be "spies" from the other side, this is not generally a socially rewarding activity, but it does have an intellectual payoff.
tutakai.blogspot.com /2004/06/militantly-moderate-first-thing-to.html   (888 words)

  
 How can India Defeat Militant Islam?
Conclusion: India’s war with militant Islam is the indirect cause of the emerging naxal-based insurgencies.
Militant Indian Islam continues to voice support for Taliban and other extremist regimes/groups around the world, while condemning countries such as Israel that help defend India against a terrorist Islamic Pakistan – while still demanding by-the-book implementation of “secularism” within India.
The rule of law is hardly enforceable in this militant Islam dominated region (The woes of Jammu and Ladakh, India, the Kashmiri colony).
www.indiacause.com /columns/OL_040830.htm   (3247 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Middle East | Sheikh Yassin: Spiritual figurehead
He was a hate figure for Israelis, described by ministers as the Palestinian Osama Bin Laden, "his hands tainted with the blood of hundreds of Israelis, children, women and babies".
As the spiritual leader of one of the largest and most militant of all the Palestinian groups fighting the Israeli occupation, Sheikh Yassin was a prime target for Israelis.
Militant groups like Hamas did initially declare a temporary truce, but that unravelled in July 2003 after Israeli forces killed two Hamas members in retaliation for the suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus that left 21 people dead.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/1695470.stm   (782 words)

  
 Militant Islam’s Burgeoning Borders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The problem stems from militant Muslims that have attempted to impose Shari’a in several states in recent years.
More worrisome, perhaps, is that Nigeria has become a staging ground for the forces of militant Islam in their efforts to expand worldwide.
First, the U.S. government must acknowledge that militant Islam (not simply “terror”) is a problem of global, and epidemic proportions.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=2432   (1664 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Militant group claims to have beheaded Iraqi contractor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
BAGHDAD (AP) — A militant group in Iraq claimed in an Internet statement posted Saturday that it abducted and beheaded an Iraqi construction contractor working on a U.S. military base.
A different militant group claiming to have kidnapped two Indonesian women in Iraq demanded on Saturday the release of an Indonesian cleric jailed in his home country.
More than 140 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq since April by a spectrum of groups, with some holding them for ransom and others setting political conditions for their release.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-10-02-iraq-hostage_x.htm   (987 words)

  
 [The Pakistan Example and] A War Against What? - article by Daniel Pipes
Militant Islam keeps on killing, but politicians and journalists still avert their eyes.
The media is almost as bad: Paul Marshall of Freedom House shows that American and European reporting on these many massacres in Pakistan overlooks the militant Islamic dimension, instead presenting the atrocities as vaguely anti-Western in purpose.
Refuting rationalizations of the attack of Sept. 11, 2001.
www.danielpipes.org /article/477   (1036 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Militant surrenders in Chechnya
A militant from Umat Chechayev's unit surrendered in Chechnya yesterday, the regional operative staff for the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus told RIA Novosti.
According to the militant, he organized and performed several terrorist acts against civilians and federal forces and his relatives were involved in the explosion of the Chechen government's building on December 27, 2002.
A militant who blew up a Russian Defense Ministry motorcade was killed in Chechnya, RIA Novosti was told in the Regional Operational Staff for controlling the counter terrorist operation in the North Caucasus More details...
newsfromrussia.com /accidents/2004/06/19/54450.html   (1385 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Academia Silent on Militant Islam by Jonathan Calt Harris
Islamist movements in the Arab world are presented in only one panel, and couched as “resistence movements”, and “Militant Islam” is not the subject of a single paper.
In contrast, the date September 11 does appear often in the title of sessions and papers; it is even in the title of the presidential address (“Middle East Studies After September 11”).
Despite the Middle East and militant Islam dominating the American national debate, the scholars of these subjects have chosen to opt out and either bury their heads in esoteric subjects or offer blatant apologetics.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4759   (506 words)

  
 frontline: battle for the holy land: combatants: the palestinians | PBS
The Palestinian Authority was established according to the 1993 Oslo Declaration of Principles, one aim of which was to establish a "Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority" for Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
While suicide bombing has often been a tactic of the Islamic militants, it has only recently been embraced by secular groups such as the PFLP and, in particular, the Al Aqsa Brigades.
It is believed that Arafat set up the Tanzim to serve a dual purpose: first as a secular counterbalance to the growing power and influence of the Islamist militant groups, and also as a pro-Arafat force that could attack the Israeli occupiers.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/holy/combatants/palestinians.html   (2045 words)

  
 The Militant - a socialist newspaper - March 27, 2006 -- front page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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We call on working people to oppose all the “immigration reform”; bills before the U.S. Congress—from the Sensenbrenner proposal recently approved by the House of Representatives to the McCain-Kennedy bill.
The goal of these bills is not to expel all those without papers or to slow down immigration.
www.themilitant.com   (958 words)

  
 Militant about "Islamism"
Militant Islam derives from Islam but is a misanthropic, misogynist, triumphalist, millenarian, anti-modern, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, terroristic, jihadistic, and suicidal version of it.
In fighting the war on terror, it would be nice to think there is a role for one of the few U.S. scholars to warn of the danger from militant Islam in advance of September 11.
We must be specific: we are at war with militant Islam, not 'terrorism.'" Pipes hammered at this point for almost three years.
www.harvardmagazine.com /on-line/010540.html   (4706 words)

  
 Omdurman.org: exposing Islamofascist and Palestinian terror
Militant "Muslims" flee in terror from exploding bottles of seltzer water dropped from an Israeli Piper Cub (or equivalent).
Militant "Muslims" win through sheer mindless fanaticism and weight of numbers (but get their just desserts at Omdurman, not shown in the movie).
Militant "Islamic" Turks and Tartars attack the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1672.
www.omdurman.org   (3842 words)

  
 Capitalism Magazine: Does Poverty Cause Militant Islam? by Daniel Pipes
Summary: Militant Islam (or Islamism) is not a response to poverty or impoverishment; not only are Bangladesh and Iraq not hotbeds of militant Islam, but militant Islam has often surged in countries experiencing rapid economic growth.
All Other Problems Vanish The conventional wisdom-that economic stress causes militant Islam and that economic growth is needed to blunt it-has many well-placed adherents.
Yes, he replied: "The moment a person is in a good economic position, has a job, and can support his family, all other problems vanish." Leftists in the Middle East concur, interpreting the militant Islamic resurgence as "a sign of pessimism.
www.capmag.com /articlePrint.asp?ID=1362   (2707 words)

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