ARMY OF MUHAMMAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Army of Muhammad mean? 

• ARMY OF MUHAMMAD (noun)
  The noun ARMY OF MUHAMMAD has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings

  Familiarity information: ARMY OF MUHAMMAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMY OF MUHAMMAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Army of Muhammad; Jaish-e-Muhammad; Jaish-i-Mohammed; JEM

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:

Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)