| 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 |
| 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 |