What is the meaning of bearer of the sword?

noun

  • A small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping.
    • usage: "In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives"
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