Here's a very interesting interview with Daniel Pipes, an expert on "Militant Islam"...
DP: Militant Islam is a radical utopian ideology along the lines of fascism and Marxism-Leninism. Although the details differ, as with those ideologies, militant Islam seeks to use totalitarian means to overthrow governments, transform human beings and dominate the world. It is a formula that is all too familiar. If one knows anything about the barbarism of fascism or communism, one readily recognizes the same general threat from militant Islam.
He makes some suprising predictions about the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He also has some good stuff about how it got started. Kind of a different take than what I've seen before.