Thus Islamism marches west, through vacuums and inaction, through disengagement and denial. Today, Europe reaps the consequences; tomorrow, maybe we will.

Islamism in the IS age. March 17, 2015. Iraqi policemen and Shiite fighters hold an Islamic State flag, which they pulled down on the outskirts of the Iraqi town of al-Alam, March 8, 2015.

At the same time, Islam is cleaving along ancient, sectarian lines. The two main branches of the faith -- Sunni and Shiite-- are separating and preparing for conflict.This is happening physically ...

Inside the reform movement, among Muslims against Islamism, we are teaming with people of all political stripes (in fact, tilting heavily toward liberals in the American sense — toward feminists ...

As a Muslim committed to Islam, and thus starkly opposed to the mendacious, totalitarian imposter of Islam that is Islamism, the underpinning of all Hamas’s words, deeds, and diabolical ...

Political Islamism is not to be feared. May 25, 2012. Marwan Muasher is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

To be clear, Islamism is the religio-political-cultural belief system that the state should have an Islamic identity and be guided only by shariah law (Islamic jurisprudence).

This line of thinking, that Arab nationalism and Islamism are irreconcilable, is forcefully expressed in a recent Anatol Lieven article in The Nation.Among other things, the piece is a nasty ...

Islamism Is Ready for a Comeback The death of political Islam in the Middle East has been greatly exaggerated. Article by Steven A. Cook ...

Islamism is a nationalistic globalisation critique that rejects the nation state since it is unable to achieve pan-Arabic and pan-Islamic aims. In the fashion of almost every “pan”-movement, ...