Claim: On our stage: 'Islamists hijacked it from Faisal's time'
MISLEADINGTHE ANSWER
Partly. From 1921 a cleric's office led (the Mufti); al-Qassam armed cells in the 1930s. But 1919-20 was nationalist, Muslim and Christian; the PLO was secular 1964-87. Hamas's bid came in 1987.
Hamas's own 1988 charter, Art. 27: the PLO 'adopted the idea of the secular state'. Oxford encyclopedia: before Hamas, Islam was rarely its main ground.
SOURCE
Peel 1937; Hamas Covenant 1988 Art. 27 (Avalon); Legrain, Oxford Encyc. (2009); Thompson 2020
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