{"id":4386,"date":"2008-02-03T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/religions_collide_under_the_dreaming_spires\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T04:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T04:34:00","slug":"religions_collide_under_the_dreaming_spires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4386","title":{"rendered":"Religions collide under the dreaming spires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the burning of the Oxford Martyrs in 1555 to the revolutionary Oxford Movement in 1833, the university city has long been the scene of religious conflict.<\/p>\n<p>But a very modern battle of faiths is brewing amid the ancient dreaming spires, which could result in the Islamic call to prayer being broadcast over one of the nation&#8217;s earliest and most important seats of Christian theology.<\/p>\n<p>Senior members of the Oxford Central Mosque are seeking permission to broadcast a two-minute Adhan, the traditional Muslim call to prayer, through loud speakers in the minaret three times a day.<\/p>\n<p>However, rather than being welcomed as a sign of multi-culturalism, the proposal has outraged many East Oxford locals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/02\/02\/nmosque102.xml\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the burning of the Oxford Martyrs in 1555 to the revolutionary Oxford Movement in 1833, the university city has long been the scene of religious conflict. But a very modern battle of faiths is brewing amid the ancient dreaming<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4386\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,199,426,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}