islamic group

Noun

• 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
    

• 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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya , Islamic Group , Jemaah Islamiyah , JI , Islamic Community , Malaysian Mujahidin Group , Malaysia Militant Group