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You did not require books, organizations, political parties, policies, armed groups in your definition of 'global ideology'.
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Here is the definition of "ideology":
2 a : a systematic body of concepts especially about human life or culture b : a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture c : the integrated assertions, theories and aims that constitute a sociopolitical program
Ideologies do not exist in vacuums. They are invented, refined, disseminated among the populace, and then seek to win power. These cannot be done by someone on his own.
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Tell me where the line is between religion and ideology
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Walk into any college or university. The religion/philosophy department is always separate from the political science department. There is a clear difference between the two. For one, religion is primarily internally focused on an individual's beliefs and practices whereas political ideologies are concerned with societies and nations as a whole.
I italicized "is", not political.
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Haha... tens of millions around the world support this individual?
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At minimum there are that many Islamists...
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"significant" number of UK Muslims. Such weasel words,
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40-53% support for implementation of shariah based on public polling. That is "significant", no?
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There is also little in common between those fighting in Afghanistan/Pakistan and Iran. They wont stay in the same room together. Is it the same ideology?
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Neither would the Soviets and Chinese. Does that mean they were both not Communist?
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A feminist could just as well replace 'males' in your paragraph and be equally accurate. "Males" are protesting in the UK, "males" have taken over Afghanistan in the 90s, "males" have taken over Pakistan. Similarly for "Asians" and "Browns" and "Adults"
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There is no "male", "female", "Asian", "brown", or "adult" ideology. Feminism exists in all corners of the world but it, like environmentalism, is a political movement concerned with a particular issue. Ideologies deal with all major issues in a country.
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so yes Communism, Buddhism, Shinto, Small-goverment conservatism, Christianity, Scientology and Islamism (whatever that is) are probably global ideologies as defined by you.
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What is your definition of an ideology? For the fourth time, do you believe Communism was/is a global ideology?
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An Islamist in Iran is not the same as an Islamist from Pakistan. If anything, Islamists in Pakistan (who are mainly Wahabi/Deobandi to begin with) bash Iran on a regular basis.
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Sure, just as Khruschev was not the same as Mao or Castro today is not the same as Hu Jintao. Yet they all fell under the basic Communist ideology. Of course there are always going to be local differences among an ideology. Are social democrats in Britain the same as their counterparts in Sweden or Pakistan?
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between Iranian revolution inspired movements and the other various Wahabi ideology inspired activities that r taking place in the world.......there is a huge difference between the two....and like u say, Wahabhis consider Shia a bigger enemy then the Western "Kuffar" and the other "infidels".....
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Just like Moscow hated Beijing and vice versa. Both considered themselves the "true" incarnation of Communism and sought to be the leaders of international Communism.
As to them viewing Shia a bigger enemy than Westerners, perhaps in theory but not in practice. Do you see them blowing up bazaars in Shiraz or flying planes into Tehran?
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^its the likes of John McCain who do not know, or pretend to not know, the difference b/w Iranian backed movements (Hamas, Hezbollah, Qoat alBadr etc)
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Hamas is an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. It received plenty of funding from Saudi Arabia too until 9/11. Hezbollah is a Shia baby of Iran's Khomenists but Hamas is not. The Hamas Salafist alliance with Iranian Khomenists is a marriage of convenience. Is this surprising? Hamas is also allied with Baathist secularists in Syria and the Salafists themselves allied with America when they needed it to fight a another "kafir" in the 80's. International relations makes for some strange alliances.