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Militant Islam refers to jihadi endeavors to establish Islamic laws.

The use of madrassa schools to train militants, and radical cleric involvement, are two, which arise in discussions of the Global War on Terror in its recently expanded scope.

Militant groups usually seek an Islamic state constructed by force embracing the entire Islamic World. But this is not the only way to create that state or co-operative agency, and the militants vary in their tolerance for different methods to achieve it.

Further reading

• Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Yale University Press, March 2001. ISBN 978-0300089028

External links

• Militant Islam Monitor
• Daily News on Militant Islam Around The World
• Vicente Navarro, "Why Huntington and Beck Are Wrong: Conflict or Alliance of Civilization vs. the Unspoken Worldwide Class Struggle", Counterpunch, April 7 / 8, 2007.
• Pakistan's militant Islamic groups, BBC News, 7 October 2003