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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/10/AR2007031000433.html
Outcry Forces Hamas to Rescind Book Ban
[AP/Washington Post] The Hamas-run PA Education Ministry on Saturday rescinded its decision to pull an anthology of Palestinian folk tales from school libraries and destroy copies, reportedly over mild sexual innuendo, following a widespread public outcry. Some 1,500 copies of the book were destroyed - the most direct attempt by Hamas to impose its militant Muslim beliefs on Palestinian society. Dozens of writers, academics and other intellectuals marched to the Education Ministry in Ramallah to protest the ministry's decision to pull the anthology, holding banners reading, "No to Ignorance, Yes to Enlightenment."