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}]