{"id":10169,"date":"2014-08-04T09:49:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T09:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=10169"},"modified":"2014-08-04T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T09:49:05","slug":"saudi-grand-mufti-issues-fatwa-against-solidarity-marches-for-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/saudi-grand-mufti-issues-fatwa-against-solidarity-marches-for-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Grand Mufti issues Fatwa against solidarity marches for Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The fatwa was issued by Saudi Arabia\u2019s Grand Mufti and General President for Scientific Researches and Fatwa, Abdul Aziz Al Ash-Sheikh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This comes at a time after which several demonstrations have been organized in Arab and non-Arabs countries alike in solidarity with the Gaza Strip. These demonstrations have taken place since the Zionist aggression on Palestinians starting, July 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to Al\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alghadeer.tv\/news\/detail\/17241\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ghadeer TV,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u2019s Grand Mufti said that the pro-Gaza demonstrations \u201care just useless demagogic actions, that won\u2019t help Palestinians.\u201d \u201cDemagoguery does not work. It is just an exaggeration,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Saudi Grand Mufti called upon Saudi Arabia\u2019s citizens to donate money as humanitarian aid to Palestinians, rather than mobilizing in solidarity marches. The Grand Mufti hailed the Saudi Arabian King\u2019s donation to the victims of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, and urged Saudi citizens to do the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After a long silence on the Israeli aerial, naval and ground attacks on Gaza since July 8, last week King Abdullah issued a directive to donate SR100 million ($53.3 million) to the Palestinian Health Ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abdul Aziz Al Ash-Sheikh is not the only Saudi Mufti to say solidarity demonstrations with Gaza is \u201charam\u201d. Earlier this week, another prominent Saudi Arabian cleric, Saleh Al-Luhaidan described the pro-Palestine marches as \u201cdemagogic denouncements.\u201d Sheikh Saleh Al-Luhaidan who is a Member of the Council of Senior Scholars said that these marches lead to \u201cacts of chaos and sabotage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Al-Luhaidan said that even if these marches don\u2019t lead to chaos and sabotage; they keep people away from being close to God. Instead, Sheikh Saleh Al-Luhaidan urged Saudi citizens to pray for Palestinians in Gaza Strip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source-\u00a0<a title=\"Source-Morocco World News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moroccoworldnews.com\/2014\/08\/135880\/saudi-grand-mufti-issues-fatwa-against-solidarity-marches-with-gaza\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Morocco World News<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fatwa was issued by Saudi Arabia\u2019s Grand Mufti and General President for Scientific Researches and Fatwa, Abdul Aziz Al Ash-Sheikh. This comes at a time after which several demonstrations have been organized in Arab and non-Arabs countries alike in solidarity with the Gaza Strip. These demonstrations have taken place since the Zionist aggression on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[192,331,840,136,1425,1426,163],"class_list":["post-10169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-miscellaneous","tag-bds","tag-gaza","tag-international-solidarity","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10171,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions\/10171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}