JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jemaah Islamiyah mean? 

• JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH (noun)
  The noun JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Islamic Community; Islamic Group; Jemaah Islamiyah; JI; Malaysia Militant Group; Malaysian Mujahidin Group

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:

Federation of Malaysia; Malaysia (a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957)