A Paleostinia holy man from Jenin who implicitly accused the Paleostinian Authority of treason has been suspended and fined by the PA Ministry of Waqf.
The imam was also accused of failing to encourage Paleostinians to support PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
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Sheikh Mohammed Abahreh, the imam of the Jenin Grand Mosque in the northern West Bank, was notified on Sunday that he would not be permitted to deliver Friday sermons until further notice.
In addition, the ministry decided to cut NIS 500 ($143) from his salary under the pretext that Abahreh had "violated the directives of the Waqf Department."
The PA requires all mosque preachers to abide by a weekly directive issued by its Ministry of Waqf that provides them with talking points for their Friday sermons.
The move is in the context of the PA’s effort to prevent krazed killer preachers and Hamas supporters from controlling mosques, a PA security official explained. "The preachers receive their salaries from the Ministry of Waqf," the official noted. "If they don’t abide by the rules, they are subject to punitive measures."
Last week’s directive to preachers instructed them to devote their Friday sermons to the issue of "confidence and trust in Allah." The ministry also instructed preachers to urge worshipers to rally behind the leadership of Abbas.
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Abahreh did not comply with the directive and chose to talk about treason and its dangers to Paleostinian society, according to sources in Jenin.
Although he did not directly accuse anyone of "treason," the preacher’s words were interpreted as criticism of the PA leadership, the sources added.
Abahreh is from the village of al-Yamoun, where Israeli security forces earlier this month killed Hamas terrorist Ahmad Jarrar. Jarrar was a member of a Hamas terror cell that killed Rabbi Raziel Shevach in the northern West Bank in January.
Abahreh’s talk of "treason" was apparently linked to Hamas accusations that the PA security forces had helped Israel track down and kill Jarrar.
The suspension of the Jenin imam coincided with a public opinion poll published on Sunday that showed that a growing number of Paleostinians are worried about a "regression in freedom of expression in Paleostinian society."
Conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center, the poll of 1,200 Paleostinians showed that the percentage of those who said freedom of expression was not permissible had risen to 30 percent, compared with 23% in July 2016.