islamic group meaning and definition

ISLAMIC GROUP noun

Definition of Islamic Group (noun)

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