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JAMAAT UL-FUQRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jamaat ul-Fuqra mean? 

JAMAAT UL-FUQRA (noun)
  The noun JAMAAT UL-FUQRA has 1 sense:

1. an Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s; seeks to purify Islam through violence; the cells in North America and the Caribbean insulate themselves from Western culture and will even attack other Muslims who they regard as hereticsplay

  Familiarity information: JAMAAT UL-FUQRA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


JAMAAT UL-FUQRA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s; seeks to purify Islam through violence; the cells in North America and the Caribbean insulate themselves from Western culture and will even attack other Muslims who they regard as heretics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Fuqra; Jamaat ul-Fuqra; Tanzimul Fuqra

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)


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