[AP/San Francisco Chronicle] Mohammed Daraghmeh and Dalia Nammari - The Hamas-run PA Education Ministry has ordered an anthology of Palestinian folk tales pulled from school libraries, reportedly over mild sexual innuendo, the most direct attempt by the Islamic militants to impose their beliefs on Palestinian society. The book ban angered and worried many Palestinians, who have feared that Hamas would remake the Palestinian territories according to its hard-line interpretation of Islam. "If we don't stand up to the Islamists now, they won't stop confiscating books, songs and folklore," said West Bank novelist Zakariya Mohammed.
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