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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
How To Use Egyptian Islamic Jihad In A Sentence
- Al-Zawahiri is a physician and the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ).
- Nobody's questioning the fact that he was the mentor of Zawahiri and the ideologue of Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
- Veteran leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, tortured and jailed in his native Egypt.
- Al-Zawahiri is a physician and the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ).
- That cell later became part of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a group fighting to overthrow the Egyptian government.
- In 1998, Zawahiri merged his Egyptian Islamic Jihad with bin Laden's al-Qaida, becoming bin Laden's deputy and chief Islamic ideologist. Ayman al-Zawahiri: Al-Qaida's arrogant doctor of death | The Observer profile
- Al-Zawahiri is a physician and the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ).