{"id":18315,"date":"2010-04-10T00:10:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T21:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=18315"},"modified":"2012-08-05T20:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T17:32:38","slug":"england-replica-mosques-being-used-as-army-firing-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/04\/10\/england-replica-mosques-being-used-as-army-firing-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGLAND: Replica Mosques being used as Army firing targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solarnavigator.net\/geography\/geography_images\/Egypt_Cairo_mosques.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.solarnavigator.net\/geography\/geography_images\/Egypt_Cairo_mosques.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>8 April  2010  \u00a0 The  Muslim Council of Britain was shocked and saddened to learn of replica mosques  being used as Army firing targets in Catterick.<\/p>\n<p>Allowing the places of worship  to be used in this manner sends out all the wrong signals on so many levels. The  MCB raised the issue with the Ministry of Defence in the past and is now raising  once again to seek clarification.<\/p>\n<p>Dr  Muhammad Abdul Bari, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain said  \u201cOver many months mosques in this country have been at the forefront of  anti-Muslim hate campaigns, vandalism and even arson attacks.<\/p>\n<p>This totally  unacceptable and worrying practice of using replica mosques as firing  targets\u00a0plays into the very hands of those on the far-right who take aim at  mosques.<\/p>\n<p>The  Army must go beyond simply\u00a0apologising and acknowledging\u00a0that this insensitive  practice must now stop.<\/p>\n<p>They have worked hard to highlight the contribution of  Muslims in our armed forces. We hope swift action is taken to safeguard this  good work and ensure cohesion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Forum\u00a0 uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 April 2010 \u00a0 The Muslim Council of Britain was shocked and saddened to learn of replica mosques being used as Army firing targets in Catterick. Allowing the places of worship to be used in this manner sends out all the wrong signals on so many levels. The MCB raised the issue with the Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2819,8275],"class_list":["post-18315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-mosques","tag-mosques-as-target"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}