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| Salfit village upset over alleged slander of imam |
| 2009-12-17 |
| [Ma'an] Officials in Yasouf village were upset over a misprint in Ma'an's Arabic edition Tuesday, which mistakenly labeled a Jerusalem official the Imam of the village. Chairman of the Yasuf village committee Abdel-Rahim Saleh Musleh, "Abu An-Nour," telephoned the Ma'an offices Wednesday, saying the council "rejected" the MaanImage that described the man wearing a red kuffeieh as the imam of the village, receiving a Qur'an from a settler rabbi. Musleh called the mistake "rude" and said it could "ruin the reputation" of the imam. The photos documented the mayor of Salfit and several villagers receiving copies of the Qur'an from the settler rabbis, from an illegal settlement in the West Bank near Bethlehem. The group brought the gifts as an apology for the destructive acts of a separate group of settlers who burned down the village mosque earlier in the week. The mistake was corrected by Ma'an Arabic after speaking with Sheikh Mousa, who confirmed he was not the subject of the photographs. Musleh called the mistake a "ploy by the media," adding that the real Imam, Sheikh Jamal Mousa, was in Ramallah that day and "did not have his photo taken with any rabbis." |
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