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SALAFIST GROUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Salafist Group mean? 

SALAFIST GROUP (noun)
  The noun SALAFIST GROUP has 1 sense:

1. an Algerian extremist Islamic offshoot of the Armed Islamic Group; now the largest and most active armed terrorist group in Algeria that seeks to overthrow the government; a major source of support and recruitment for al-Qaeda operations in Europe and northern Africaplay

  Familiarity information: SALAFIST GROUP used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SALAFIST GROUP (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An Algerian extremist Islamic offshoot of the Armed Islamic Group; now the largest and most active armed terrorist group in Algeria that seeks to overthrow the government; a major source of support and recruitment for al-Qaeda operations in Europe and northern Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

GSPC; Salafast Group for Call and Combat; Salafist 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:

Algeria; Algerie; Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria (a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s)


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