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| 1. | [ noun ] (politics) 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: | jemaah_islamiyah ji malaysia_militant_group malaysian_mujahidin_group islamic_community | |
| Related terms: | foreign_terrorist_organization Malaysia | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (politics) a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists; emerged during the 1970s mainly in Egyptian jails | |
| Synonyms: | al-gama'a_al-islamiyya | |
| Examples: | "al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya uses force to push Egyptian society toward Islamic rule" |
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| Related terms: | foreign_terrorist_organization Egypt | |
| Similar spelling: |
islamic_law islamic_unity islamic_ummah islamic_jihad islamic_calendar |
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