In '' Militant Islam '' Pipes contradicts the consensus view of scholars and journalists including Judith Miller , Fouad Ajami , Olivier Roy who argued in the wake of the September 11 attacks that militant Islam of he type represented by Al Qaeda had peaked and was fading into insignificance ; Pipes asserted that Islamism had been '' on the ascendant for a full quarter-century , '' and was on the ascent .
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