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It's more used in the context of groups who represent extreme, theocratic, repressive perversions of Islam. Or at least it used to be used that way. By some people. It's more of a racist dog-whistle these days.
Actually, years and years ago, Andrew Sullivan turned the term around by coining the term "Christianist" to describe the same sort of extremist theocrats representing perversions of Christianity:
> If we are to call John Muhammed a religiously inspired terrorist (and I think we should) then we have to call Rudolph a Christian terrorist. I propose a new term for those on the fringes of the religious right who have used the Gospels to perpetuate their own aspirations for power, control and oppression: Christianists. They are as anathema to true Christians as the Islamists are to true Islam. And they have to be fought just as vigilantly.
Andrew actually blogged about it a lot, and it was one of the major themes of his book The Conservative Soul. One of the core ironies of the term is that a Christianist is much more likely to use the word "Islamist" than the average person is.
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