{"id":396337,"date":"2020-01-26T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T08:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=396337"},"modified":"2020-01-26T11:10:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T08:10:32","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-stop-funding-mosques-in-foreign-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/saudi-arabia-to-stop-funding-mosques-in-foreign-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to stop funding mosques in foreign countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Saudi minister of justice, Mohammed Bin Abdul-Karim Issa, has announced that his country will stop funding mosques in foreign countries, Arabi21.com reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-ad\"><\/div>\n<p>According to the Swiss newspaper,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.lematindimanche.ch\/#read\/200\/Le%20Matin%20Dimanche\/2020-01-25\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Le Matin Dimanche<\/a>, Saudi Arabia is to establish local administrative councils for each mosque, in cooperation with the local authorities, in order to hand over these mosques to \u201csecure hands\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The minister added: \u201cThe time has come to hand over the Geneva Mosque to a Swiss administrative council that represents Muslims in the area. It should have an elected cleric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that Saudi Arabia is to take the same measures with all the mosques all over the world, referring to \u201csecurity reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that the minister led a delegation on Thursday to visit the\u00a0Auschwitz camp\u00a0on the 75th anniversary of its liberation. He honoured the Jewish victims of the Holocaust who perished during WWII.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MEMO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Saudi minister of justice, Mohammed Bin Abdul-Karim Issa, has announced that his country will stop funding mosques in foreign countries, Arabi21.com reported on Friday. According to the Swiss newspaper,\u00a0Le Matin Dimanche, Saudi Arabia is to establish local administrative councils for each mosque, in cooperation with the local authorities, in order to hand over these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396339,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396337\/revisions\/396339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}