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]