| al-jihad | (n) an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells, Syn. Vanguards of Conquest, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad, Example: the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981 |
| harkat-ul-jihad-e-islami | (n) an extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan, Syn. HUJI, Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami |
| international islamic front for jihad against jews and crusaders | (n) a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in 1998 that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh |
| jihad | (n) a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels, Syn. international jihad, jehad |
| jihad | (n) a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal, Syn. jehad |
| jihadi | (adj) of or relating to a jihad |
| jihadist | (n) a Muslim who is involved in a jihad |
| laskar jihad | (n) a paramilitary terrorist organization of militant Muslims in Indonesia; wages a jihad against Christians in Indonesia; subscribes to the Wahhabi creed of Islam, Syn. Holy War Warriors |
| palestine islamic jihad | (n) a militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel; smaller and more exclusively militant that Hamas, Syn. Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini |
| hizballah | (n) a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon, Syn. Hizbollah, Lebanese Hizballah, Hizbullah, Party of God, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Revolutionary Justice Organization, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine |
