{"id":9631,"date":"2014-06-25T20:42:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T20:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=9631"},"modified":"2014-06-25T20:42:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T20:42:30","slug":"britain-bans-saudi-cleric-mohammad-al-arifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/britain-bans-saudi-cleric-mohammad-al-arifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain bans Saudi cleric Mohammad al-Arifi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #222222;\"><strong>Al Arabiya News is reporting that Saudi preacher Mohammad al-Arifi has been banned from entering the United Kingdom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cWe can confirm Mohammad al-Arifi has been excluded from the United Kingdom,\u201d a Home Office spokesperson said in a statement to Al Arabiya News.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cThe UK Government makes no apologies for refusing people access to the UK if we believe they represent a threat to our society. Coming here is a privilege that we refuse to extend to those who seek to subvert our shared values,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">This week, the cleric was accused by the British media of radicalizing three young British citizens allegedly now fighting in\u00a0<a style=\"color: #5c5c5c;\" title=\"Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.5pillarz.com\/category\/world\/middle-east\/syria\/\">Syria<\/a>. In the past Arifi has delivered many fiery sermons condemning Bashar al Assad and praising the fighters who oppose him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Arifi, who is banned in Switzerland for his views (which include fiercely anti-Shia rhetoric), had been \u201cpreaching jihad\u201d at the al-Manar Center in Cardiff in 2012, according to a report by the Daily Mail on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Elders of the al-Manar Center, which claims on its website that in addition to serving Cardiff\u2019s 11,000-strong Muslim community, \u201calso plays a humble role in introducing the non-Muslim population of Britain to the religion of Islam,\u201d are due to meet this week to discuss the issue, the Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Arifi is often known for making controversial statements and fatwas in the past \u2013 one ruling being a call for daughters not to wear revealing clothes in the presence of their fathers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">He is also reported to have tweeted: \u201dSome of the brothers have asked us about waging war inside Israel \u2013 we say to them, Jihad is not allowed in countries where there is peace \u2013 such as\u00a0<a style=\"color: #5c5c5c;\" title=\"Saudi Arabia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.5pillarz.com\/category\/world\/middle-east\/saudi-arabia\/\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>, Israel and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #5c5c5c;\" title=\"Qatar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.5pillarz.com\/category\/world\/middle-east\/qatar\/\">Qatar<\/a>\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Last year, the cleric claimed in a television interview that the late al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was a victim of wide-level character assassination, although later backtracked on his remarks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">In December 2012, Arifi urged parents to prevent their kids from watching MBC3, a sister channel of Al Arabiya TV, because he described its content (which is mostly cartoons) as a way to promote \u201catheism and corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Sheikh Arifi has long urged Muslim youth to travel for Jihad in Syria. In June 2013, he appeared in a video giving a Friday sermon in Cairo, urging \u201cheroic\u201d Egyptians to \u201cget up and help their brothers in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.5pillarz.com\/2014\/06\/25\/britain-bans-saudi-cleric-mohammad-al-arifi\/\"> 5Pillarz\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Arabiya News is reporting that Saudi preacher Mohammad al-Arifi has been banned from entering the United Kingdom. \u201cWe can confirm Mohammad al-Arifi has been excluded from the United Kingdom,\u201d a Home Office spokesperson said in a statement to Al Arabiya News. \u201cThe UK Government makes no apologies for refusing people access to the UK &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[366,1000,999,1001,1424,163,278],"class_list":["post-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-banned","tag-jihadi","tag-muhammad-al-arifi","tag-saudi-cleric","tag-syria","tag-ticker","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631","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=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9633,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions\/9633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}