{"id":1205,"date":"2014-07-03T15:47:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2014-07-03T15:47:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:47:43","slug":"closure-of-saharawi-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Closure of Saharawi mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRTuTfq_siqBamqfM32ebVOXcHBaTqKYfD6uCXFzDACtTPnq1_D\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"138\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><strong>Mosque of El Aiun \/ Western Sahara<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span lang=\"ES\">Adala UK would like to express profound regret at the closure of the Saharawi \u2018Kaisariat Salam\u2019 mosque by the Moroccan authorities. The mosque is located in central El Aaiun and was attended by around 2,000 Saharawis for prayer. The mosque was also used as a meeting place to organise political demonstrations for the Saharawi people\u2019s right to self-determination, which is presumably the reason behind the closure.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"ES\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"ES\">The Saharawi population of El Aiun has attended Kaisariat Salam mosque for years and its closure has cause great disappointment among them. An 84-year-old Saharawi citizen told Adala UK:\u00a0<i>\u2018I have been coming to Kaisariat Salam mosque for a long time. The Imam is Saharawi and spoke Hasania, our local dialect, and I could understand him perfectly well. The mosque was very close to my house; now I have to walk very far so I only pray once or twice a day at the mosque at the most, whereas before I used to go five times a day. It\u2019s a shame that they closed our mosque just because we are Saharawis.\u2019<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><span lang=\"ES\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The mosque\u2019s closure comes as a great surprise and disappointment from Morocco, a country with a long tradition of religious tolerance. It is a discriminatory and absurd act which violates Saharawi muslims\u2019 right to religious freedom.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adala UK would like to express profound regret at the closure of the Saharawi \u2018Kaisariat Salam\u2019 mosque by the Moroccan authorities. The mosque is located in central El Aaiun and was attended by around 2,000 Saharawis for prayer. The mosque was also used as a meeting place to organise political demonstrations for the Saharawi people\u2019s right to self-determination, which is presumably the reason behind the closure. \u00a0 The Saharawi population of El Aiun has attended Kaisariat Salam mosque for years and its closure has cause great disappointment among them. An 84-year-old Saharawi citizen told Adala UK:\u00a0\u2018I have been coming to Kaisariat Salam mosque for a long time. The Imam is Saharawi and spoke Hasania, our local dialect, and I could understand him perfectly well. The mosque was very close to my house; now I have to walk very far so I only pray once or twice a day at the mosque at the most, whereas before I used to go five times a day. It\u2019s a shame that they closed our mosque just because we are Saharawis.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}