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JAMAAT UL-FUQRA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Jamaat ul-Fuqra mean?
• JAMAAT UL-FUQRA (noun)
The noun JAMAAT UL-FUQRA has 1 sense:
1. an Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s; seeks to purify Islam through violence; the cells in North America and the Caribbean insulate themselves from Western culture and will even attack other Muslims who they regard as heretics
Familiarity information: JAMAAT UL-FUQRA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s; seeks to purify Islam through violence; the cells in North America and the Caribbean insulate themselves from Western culture and will even attack other Muslims who they regard as heretics
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Fuqra; Jamaat ul-Fuqra; Tanzimul Fuqra
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)
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