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Islamist
/ ˈɪzləmɪst /
adjective
- supporting or advocating Islamic fundamentalism
noun
- a supporter or advocate of Islamic fundamentalism
Example Sentences
There are fears of a major new Islamist insurrection, possibly inspired by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Just last year, over 200 Nigerian girls were kidnapped from their school by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram.
Islamist brigades including Suqur al-Sham, a 9,000-strong militia, are openly breaking with Western-favored rebel factions.
And in Diyarbakır Kurdish Hizbullah, a militant Islamist group that in the 1990s battled the PKK, made a re-appearance.
He could imagine himself an Islamist avenger like that masked monster in black who appears in the ISIS snuff videos.
These men are not given to idle words, and they are just one camp in the Islamist radical movement.
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