Haaretz reports that Fathi Hamad, a top Gazan Hamas preacher, delivered a fiery talk a short while ago calling for a ‘media jihad’ that would include taking over the Arab press and infiltrating the western media. (This, in response to the increasing strength of the Islamic Jihad movement, a rival of Hamas.)
Hamad claims that effort’s already begun. Haaretz reports:
Hamad says on tape that Hamas man Faiz Abu Smala works for the BBC, “and that way he writes the story in favor of the Islam and Muslims.”
We’re not familiar with an Abu Smala at the Beeb. Perhaps he was referring to Fayad Abu Shamala, who announced at a Hamas rally on May 6, 2001 that ‘Journalists and media organizations [are] waging the campaign shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people’?
Our sources inform us that Abu Shamala is still working at the BBC.
(Hat tip: R.C.)
