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didn't know that about those colonial connotations.
It's then quite disturbing that government/academics/analysts use the term "islamist" willy nilly (my dad still calls Muslims "Muselmans"...).
I had previously associated "islamist" simply with the salaafi/takfiri strand of islam i.e. "we should replace national governments and capitalist institutions and replace them with a single world ummah" and so on. Had thought the "ist" at the end was a reference to the idea that there's no separation between church and state...Islamist being to Muslim as Evangelical is to Christian.