Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Islamic Extremism


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   redirect to Islamic extremism per WP:IAR. As with extremism in general (see the book added as further reading there), there are two aspects of this, which can be referenced in particular (religious fundamentalism and terror tactics, which have overlap but aren't necessarily identical), so I've made a SIA at Islamic extremism. Tijfo098 (talk) 13:59, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Islamic Extremism

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This short stub fails WP:V (permalink, in case it improves) The only referenced information in it is not found in the source cited, which only discusses Islamic fundamentalism, and the difference between "Islamist", explained as Islamic fundamentalist, and "jihadist", explained as someone who also endorses Jihad as a means to achieve a fundamentalist Islamic society. The word "extremism" doesn't even appear on that page (but see quote below). So, this article is best deleted as consisting only of WP:unverifiable opinion (WP:POVFORK) right now. Tijfo098 (talk) 10:52, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

From the source cited: We shall use the term "Islamic revival" to cover the whole range of newly founded and active Islamic movements. [...] "Islamist" refers to those with primarily political agendas and "jihadist" to those for whom violence is the principal tactic. [...] In political terms [Islamic revival] includes movements that are engaged in national politics as parties and lobbies, some of which have auxiliary paramilitary forces. On the extreme are movements that use assassination, bombing and other assaults as part of an effort to seize political power by coups d'etat.

Assuming you can coin the term Islamic extremism from that quote, Islamic terrorism seems a suitable target for a redirect, but note that the capitalization difference means we're talking about a different page; the one nominated here doesn't need redirection, only deletion. Tijfo098 (talk) 11:26, 6 December 2010 (UTC)


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