Certainly Greg, but are you not embarrassed by your ignorance, and of needing things explained to you by a FW?

Islamists are followers of Islamism, a movement that seeks the overthrow of democracy and its forcible replacement with fundamentalist Islamic rule and the Sharia.
When a decent Muslim person is converted to Islamism, he or she is said to have been "radicalised" into that extremist and radical version of Islam.

Can I help you understand anything else?

Musket, does any other religion have an equivalent movement?
If so my opinion of them would be the same.