{"id":7981,"date":"2014-02-23T16:11:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T16:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=7981"},"modified":"2014-02-23T21:09:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T21:09:51","slug":"saudi-arabia-will-demolish-prophet-mohammad-pbuh-birthplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/saudi-arabia-will-demolish-prophet-mohammad-pbuh-birthplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia will demolish Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) birthplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divLead2\">\n<div id=\"divLead2\">\n<p><strong>Bulldozers are set to knock down a building in the holy city of Mecca, where Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) is believed to have been born.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The demolition of the House of Mawlid is part of a multi-billion-dollar project to build a modern complex near the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque).<\/p>\n<p>The Masjid al-Haram is the holiest Islamic site and houses Kaaba, the point which all Muslims face when praying.<\/p>\n<p>Scholars say the prophet\u2019s birthplace is the last remaining historical site in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi royal family has backed redevelopment at the cost of razing ancient structures.<\/p>\n<p>The destruction is expected to provoke anger from Muslim pilgrims who travel to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2013, Saudi Arabia\u2019s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah al-Sheikh defended the demolition of early Islamic heritage sites in Mecca.<\/p>\n<p>The highest Saudi religious authority even went much further and described the demolitions as necessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/detail\/2014\/02\/22\/351789\/saudi-arabia-to-demolish-holy-site\/\">Press Tv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulldozers are set to knock down a building in the holy city of Mecca, where Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) is believed to have been born. The demolition of the House of Mawlid is part of a multi-billion-dollar project to build a modern complex near the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque). The Masjid al-Haram is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[190,188,191,189,1426],"class_list":["post-7981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-miscellaneous","category-news-and-analysis","tag-birthplace","tag-demolish","tag-heritage","tag-prophet-mohammad-pbuh","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981","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=7981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7990,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions\/7990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}