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 | | The Ahmedis shunned jihad (holy war) as a method of resistance against non-Muslims and taught that Jesus had escaped death on the cross and lived to the age of 120 before dying and being buried in Srinagar. |
 | | Also in August, HAMAS leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin condemned the PNA for giving the go-ahead to setting up a casino in Jericho, citing Islamic sharia law, sunna ("tradition") and hadith ("sayings" of Prophet Muhammad, second highest authority in Islam superseded only by the Qur'an) against gambling and liquor. |
 | | On November 17, 1997, fifty eight foreign tourists were massacred by a band of six militants claiming to be members of the Jamaat al-Islamiyya ("The Islamic Group") as well as Jihad Talaat al-Fath ("Holy War of the Vanguard of the Conquest"), a combination of Talaa al-Fath and its parent group, Jihad. |
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