{"id":1785,"date":"2016-11-25T09:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2016-11-21T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T01:54:21","slug":"israel-approves-bill-banning-muslim-call-to-prayer-middle-east-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/israel-approves-bill-banning-muslim-call-to-prayer-middle-east-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel approves bill banning Muslim call to prayer \u2013 Middle East Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161114-israel-approves-bill-banning-muslim-call-to-prayer\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/11\/israeli-forces-blocking-access-to-qibli-mosque-in-al-aqsa-26-June-2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his support for the bill to ban the Muslim call to prayer, his government approved the bill, decided to move it to the Knesset, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Jewish Home MK Moti Yogev proposed the bill, which Netanyahu\u2019s office said the PM pledged to support, noting that the coalition government would discuss it during its weekly meeting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"specialgreybox\">\n<h3>Banning the Call to Prayer in Jerusalem<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161118-jerusalemites-recite-call-to-prayer-from-their-rooftops\/\">Jerusalemites recite call to prayer from their rooftops<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161114-praying-for-freedom-why-is-israel-silencing-the-call-for-prayer-in-jerusalem\/\">Praying for Freedom: Why Is Israel silencing the call for prayer in Jerusalem?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161107-israels-ban-on-the-muslim-call-to-prayer-in-jerusalem-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/\">Israel\u2019s ban on the Muslim call to prayer in Jerusalem is the tip of the iceberg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161105-israel-bans-muslim-call-for-dawn-prayer-from-3-mosques-in-jerusalem\/\">Israel bans Muslim call for dawn prayer from 3 mosques in Jerusalem<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mosques broadcast the call to prayer five times a day, using loudspeakers. Since the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem in 1948, right wing Jews have been trying to ban it, claiming it causes unnecessary noise.<\/p>\n<p>The statement of the Israeli PM said: \u201cIsrael is a state that respects the freedom of worship for all believers and it is committed to protecting those who suffer from noise which is caused by the loudspeakers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161114-israel-approves-bill-banning-muslim-call-to-prayer\/\">Israel approves bill banning Muslim call to prayer \u2013 Middle East Monitor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his support for the bill to ban the Muslim call to prayer, his government approved the bill, decided to move it to the Knesset, local media reported. Israeli Jewish Home MK Moti Yogev proposed the bill, which Netanyahu\u2019s office said the PM pledged to support, noting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[271,199,64],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ban-call-to-prayer","tag-jerusalem","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}