jemaah islamiyah

What does jemaah islamiyah mean?

jemaah islamiyah means "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".

What is another word for jemaah islamiyah?

Close synonyms include JI, Islamic Group, Islamic Community, Malaysian Mujahidin Group, Malaysia Militant Group. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jemaah islamiyah a common word?

jemaah islamiyah is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jemaah islamiyah come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.