islamic group

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islamic group - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Islamic Group
      n 1: a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized
           in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims
           in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore
           and Malaysia and Indonesia [syn: Jemaah Islamiyah, JI,
           Islamic Group, Islamic Community, Malaysian Mujahidin Group
           , Malaysia Militant Group]
      2: a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into
         tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists; emerged during the
         1970s mainly in Egyptian jails; "al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya uses
         force to push Egyptian society toward Islamic rule" [syn:
         al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Islamic Group]