islamic jihad

Islamic Jihad
    n 1: a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran;
         seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in
         Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon [syn:
         {Hizballah}, {Hezbollah}, {Hizbollah}, {Hizbullah},
         {Lebanese Hizballah}, {Party of God}, {Islamic Jihad},
         {Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine},
         {Revolutionary Justice Organization}, {Organization of the
         Oppressed on Earth}]
    2: an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks
       to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an
       Islamic state; works in small underground cells; "the
       original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar
       Sadat in 1981" [syn: {al-Jihad}, {Egyptian Islamic Jihad},
       {Islamic Jihad}, {Vanguards of Conquest}]