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               and  political  action,  and  thus,   which  Islam  can  exert  its
               Islamism is a political ideology      influential  force  as  a  set  of
               that  seeks  to  gain  power  to      cultural laws.
               implement Islamic Sharia.                Liberate  a  norm  for  an
                  Islamists  considered  the         authoritarian  and  hierarchical
               solution  of  social  problems  to    model  of  government,  as  well
               be the formation of an Islamic        as  a  religious  and  cultural
               government          and       the     apparatus  whose  theme  is  a
               implementation      of    Islamic     premodern        system        of
               rules    and    the    rule    of     government. (Toprak, 2010)
               jurisprudence      and    sharia,        In    the     analysis    and
               which  by  this  definition,          intellectual  confrontation  of
               Islamism     should     not    be     the  Western  thinkers  and
               interpreted  as  a  return  to        personalities  with  Islam,  the
               traditional    Islam;    because      following  two  different  views
               Islamists  use  new  categories,      can be seen:
               theories, and practices such as           -  Thinkers and personalities
               ideology      and     revolution.            who  speak  with  a
               (Zare, 2004)                                 positive  attitude  towards
                  The  religion  of  Islam  is              Islam  and  introduce  it
               often  unrealistically  perceived            as  the  only  perfect
               by  Western  public  opinion                 religion  and  savior  for
               only  as  a  religion  meaning  a            modern  crisis-stricken
               paradigm  for  a  faithful  life;            human beings.
               while  Islam  is  not  the  only          -  People  who  introduce
               apparatus of faith; rather, it is            Islam  as  the  greatest
               a  comprehensive  and  absolute              and     most     powerful
               universalist doctrine expressed              enemy  of  the  Western
               in  the  form  of  religion,  based          world. (Enayat, 2006)
               on  its  own  legal  system,  a
               political  ideology,  and  a  plan       Concerns about the increasing
               for  a  state  system,  through       of Islam have so permeated the
                                                     American media that conservative
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