Center for a New American Security

[via Angry Arab] This story reminds Abu Muqawama of the way in which Hizbollah tried to ban card-playing when it first came to prominence in southern Lebanon. That didn't go over too well, and old men went back to playing cards after pragmatism overcame ideology. Islamist insurgent groups get into trouble when they put more emphasis on fundamentalist social values than the stuff people getting rocketed and living in filth actually care about. Which tends to be the fact that they're getting rocketed, and living in filth. Do you think the Israeli government visits Sderot to roll out a family values campaign?

GAZA (Reuters) - Islamist group Hamas has told the main Palestinian telecoms company to block access to pornographic Internet sites in the Gaza Strip, a Hamas government official said on Monday.

Gaza's Ministry of Communications said in a statement that telecommunications firm PALTEL has agreed to block Internet users in the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave from viewing adult websites starting this month.