[syn: al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Islamic Group]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]