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 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]