Found 1 items, similar to Islamic Jihad.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad n 1: 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: Hizballah, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, Hizbullah, Lebanese Hizballah , Party of God, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine , Revolutionary Justice Organization , Organization of the Oppressed on Earth] 2: 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; “the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981” [syn: al-Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad , Vanguards of Conquest]