The fire and brimstone usually reserved for Israel and the US is turning inwards. Palestinian preachers are now turning their invective against Fatah, and worshippers are responding—against the preachers. The Jerusalem Post’s Khaled Abu Toameh describes recent scenes in several mosques:
The preachers have also been denouncing Abbas and his top aides in Fatah as a bunch of corrupt infidels who are conspiring with the US and Israel against Islam.
The tension reached its peak on Friday, when thousands of worshipers stormed out of mosques after the preachers launched scathing attacks on Fatah.
In the town of Deir el-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip, preacher Maher Huli was forced to run away from a local mosque after being attacked by dozens of worshipers.
Huli enraged many mosque-goers after declaring that all the PA and Fatah members who were killed in the clashes with Hamas would “end up in hell.”
