The current fighting in Gaza poses a dilemma for the adherents of the Salafi-jihadi ideology in Gaza and elsewhere. On the one hand, the Salafi-jihadis perceive Hamas as engaged in defensive jihad against the Israeli invasion of Gaza, and thus feel obligated to assist it. At the same time, they view Hamas as insufficiently devout in that it has refused to implement the shari'a law in Gaza fully and to the exclusion of any other legal system.
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