{"id":16982,"date":"2019-07-03T07:03:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T07:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=16982"},"modified":"2019-07-02T07:40:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T07:40:47","slug":"uk-muslim-scholars-issue-open-statement-slamming-israel-as-an-illegitimate-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/uk-muslim-scholars-issue-open-statement-slamming-israel-as-an-illegitimate-state\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Muslim scholars issue open statement slamming Israel as an illegitimate state"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subtitle\">Tehran (Iqna)- A group of Muslim scholars from the UK have issued a powerful statement slamming Israel as an illegitimate state and calling for all Palestinian lands to be returned.<\/div>\n<div class=\"body ah_body\">\n<div>The statement which was spearheaded by Shaykh Asrar Rashid from Birmingham has also called for an end to Israeli occupation of the entirety of Palestine.<br \/>\nThe scholars wrote:<br \/>\n\u201cWe the undersigned do not recognise \u201cIsrael\u201d as a legitimate state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201dIsrael\u201d must return the entirety of Palestinian land. Palestinians have no link to the holocaust and the crimes of the Second World War against the Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe condemn the continued fascist Zionist oppression which has cost the Palestinian people their freedom, homeland and lives for over seventy years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIslam does not promote anti-Semitism and Arabs are also a Semitic people. On the contrary, the second Caliph of Islam, Hadrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) took charge of the Church of the Sepulchre and commanded Muslims to take care of it and give Christians their full rights to worship which were curtailed prior by sectarianism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe caretakers of this Church have been a Muslim family since the arrival of Islam in the seventh century. Jews, Christians and Muslims coexisted in peace and security in Palestine, until the Zionist occupation ended the mutual tolerance that had existed for over a millennium.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran (Iqna)- A group of Muslim scholars from the UK have issued a powerful statement slamming Israel as an illegitimate state and calling for all Palestinian lands to be returned. The statement which was spearheaded by Shaykh Asrar Rashid from Birmingham has also called for an end to Israeli occupation of the entirety of Palestine. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16982","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16984,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16982\/revisions\/16984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}