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PA President denies Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, saying it is all Islamic

"A fatwa that bans working to cooperate with the deal of the century and its disseminators who will be pursued by a curse until Judgment Day"

Headline: “The [PA] grand mufti calls to honor the sanctity of the month of Ramadan” "[PA] Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories and [Palestinian] Supreme Fatwa Council Chairman Muhammad Hussein called to preserve the sanctity of the month of Ramadan (i.e., Muslim month of..."

Headline: "Ida'is calls on students to join the Shari’ah schools" "[PA] Minister of Religious Affairs Yusuf Ida'is noted the great effort that the ministry has invested since the approval of the Shari'ah track as one of the high school tracks in the framework of Government Decision No. 21 of Oct..."

Excerpt of an op-ed by Rafiah District Mufti and member of the PA's Supreme Fatwa Council Sheikh Hassan Ahmed Jaber, in his regular column in the official PA daily's religion section for the month of Ramadan. This article has been reprinted several times in previous years: "Breaking the Ramadan..."

Headline: “Ida’is: We are striving to invest in the Waqf lands and we will make sure that the preachers’ pulpits will continue [to preach] for the consolidation and unity of the nation” “[PA] Minister of Religious Affairs Sheikh Yusuf Ida’is emphasized… during his meeting yesterday [March 23, 2016]...”

Op-ed by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, columnist for official PA daily Headline: “The leaflet of Israeli ISIS” “In the city of Jerusalem and in occupied area C that is under full Israeli security and administrative control, a leaflet was distributed with the signature of the Takfir (i.e., the act of...”

Op-ed by Hafez Al-Barghouti, regular columnist for Al-Hayat Al-Jadida: "The ISIS experts in Islamic law permitted taking Christian and Yazidi women captive, and their sale as servants and slaves, and also the taking of women from among their Muslim opponents captive... This question is directed to..."

Op-ed by Hafez Al-Barghouti, regular columnist for Al-Hayat Al-Jadida “Anyone who allows himself – God forbid! – to take the place of God in Heaven and Earth and to grant Shahada (Martyrdom) to whomever he pleases and refuse to grant it [Shahada] to whomever he pleases, is a sinner. This brings us...”

Op-ed by Jawad Boulus, a columnist for the official PA daily “The Islamic Movement in Sakhnin opposed the screening of the film The Savior, which recounts the story of Jesus. To clarify the opposition’s position, five Imams of mosques in Sakhnin published notices in which they explained they...”

Sheikh Hassan Ahmed Jaber, Mufti of the Rafiah district and a member of the Supreme Council for Religious Rulings in Palestine, in his daily Ramadan column: "The Prophet [Muhammad] said: 'The pillars of religion and foundations of Islam are three, and whoever neglects any one of them - his blood is..."

“Yesterday [July 15, 2013], the police arrested a man for cursing Allah and desecrating the sanctity of the month of Ramadan. In a press release, the police said it had arrested a man for cursing Allah because of an argument with [another] citizen, during the patrols [conducted] as part of measures...”

Headline: “We won’t take human rights [organizations] into consideration” – Hamas’ Ministry of Interior: ‘We will keep an eye on anyone contributing to lowering the level of masculinity’ in Gaza” “Minister of Interior in the deposed Hamas government, Fathi Hammad announced that his Security Forces...

“The Bir Zeit University Debate Club, together with the Institute for Women’s Studies, yesterday held the eleventh session of its series of regular debates under the heading ’There is no contradiction between implementing Islamic law and maintaining a civil state.’ The debate centered around a...”

Column, religion section of the official PA daily, by PA cleric Abada Sabri: "It is best to fulfill the focused individual worship [I'tikaf] during the last 10 days of Ramadan... A wife should do the I'tikaf [in the Mosque] only after getting permission from her husband. And if he denies her..."

"The Liberation Party is especially active in spreading its ideas. Activists of this party, founded by Sheikh Taqi Al-Din Al-Nabhani in Jerusalem, hung large placards in the Al-Aqsa Mosque plazas, calling for the establishment of the Islamic Caliphate… Islamic female activists devoted the first..."

"The Jericho court yesterday sentenced a man to a month in prison who ate in public during the blessed month of Ramadan." Click to view bulletin

"The police arrested five people who desecrated the holiness of the month of Ramadan by eating in public during daytime, in the city of Nablus." Click to view bulletin

Headline: "Haniyeh: The Arab Spring will introduce the era of the Caliphate" "Head of the Hamas government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said yesterday that the meeting held two days ago between the President of Egypt and the head of the Hamas Political Bureau was a product of the Arab Spring that 'will..."

"A senior official in the area of human rights (from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights based in Gaza) announced yesterday that his organization has met with five Christians that the Orthodox Church in the Gaza Strip has accused of being kidnapped by an Islamic organization. He stressed that..."

"The [Greek] Orthodox Church in Gaza yesterday accused an Islamic group of kidnapping five Christians in order to force them to convert to Islam. In a press release published during a sit-down strike, held at the site of the Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza, the church's information bureau said: 'A..."

"Minister of the Interior [in the Hamas government], Fathi Hamad, said that there is no peace with secularism, and that there will be no rule but the rule of Islam. During the ceremony marking the first graduating class from the police academy in Gaza, Hamad said: 'There is no peace with..."

Headline: "Hamas police forbids men to work in women's hair salons in Gaza" "The police force of the dismissed [Hamas] government announced yesterday that it is forbidden for men to work in women's hair salons in Gaza. In its order, published on its official website, the police emphasized that the..."