NOUN
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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 - 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
How To Use Islamic Group In A Sentence
- Attempting to form a political party or joining an Islamic group were known as easy ways to provoke the security forces into action.
- A deadly car bombing at the United Nations building in Abuja has brought more attention to an Islamic group.
- Revivalist Islamic groups are amongst the most deadly.
- Cumber, a Pakistani-born Muslim who is chief executive of the Austin-based mobile imaging company SozoTek, will work to improve the U.S. image within the 57-nation Islamic group, the White House said.
- But the Islamic group has become an integral part of building Somalia state and will make great influence in future.
- Jemaah Islamiyah means simply "Islamic Group" and the organization's ideological roots stretch back to Indonesian independence at the end of World War II.
- Attempting to form a political party or joining an Islamic group were known as easy ways to provoke the security forces into action.
- But they say they take the group's claim at face value and see it as another example of the "twisted ideology" of the militant Islamic group.
- Jemaah Islamiyah means simply "Islamic Group" and the organization's ideological roots stretch back to Indonesian independence at the end of World War II.
- But they say they take the group's claim at face value and see it as another example of the "twisted ideology" of the militant Islamic group.
