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Islamic Community

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Noun1.Islamic Community - 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
Islamic Group, Jemaah Islamiyah, JI, Malaysia Militant Group, Malaysian Mujahidin Group
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
Malaya, Malaysia - a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957
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Thus on the one hand he recognizes that "violence in the name of faith" is hard to tame or eradicate, but on the other seems to blame Dutch society for the alienation in the Islamic community, sometimes the Western world as a whole: "Perhaps Western civilization, with the Amsterdam red-light district as its fetid symbol, does have something to answer for.
Ambivalent in Amsterdam by Hollander, Paul / The National Interest
Quietly but methodically, Harold went about the task of identifying and making contact with various elements of the scattered Islamic community in greater Chicago, which turned out to be fairly complex and diversified.
Harold Vogelaar: his legacy and the challenge of CCME by Scherer, James A. / Currents in Theology and Mission
The work does, however, provide a careful account of the multi-centred Islamic community of late imperial China and its social logic.
The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial ... by Guy, R. Kent / Pacific Affairs
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