Islamic Group

Islamic Group
noun
1. a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists; emerged during the 1970s mainly in Egyptian jails
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al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya uses force to push Egyptian society toward Islamic rule

2. 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
Regions: ↑Malaysia, ↑Malaya

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