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"Re-education" for West Bank Mosque Preachers
[Ynet News] Ali Waked - Ever since Hamas took control of Gaza, PA officials in the West Bank have been waging an all-out war against anyone suspected of belonging to Hamas, taking action against the group's control of orphanages, community centers, health clinics, and groups for religious learning. Closer supervision of mosque activities has led to dozens of imams associated with Hamas being ousted. Sermons are now given by moderate imams associated with Fatah. A preacher in a mosque near Ramallah explained: "We receive a memo every so often from the Ministry of Religious Affairs stipulating the subject of that week's sermon. It is forbidden for us to stray from this....We have stopped with politics a long time ago."