{"id":45737,"date":"2014-09-07T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bel_telegraph_saudi_arabias_proposal_to_destroy_prophet_mohammeds_tomb_risk\/"},"modified":"2014-09-07T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T14:40:15","slug":"bel_telegraph_saudi_arabias_proposal_to_destroy_prophet_mohammeds_tomb_risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45737","title":{"rendered":"(Bel. Telegraph) Saudi Arabia&#39;s proposal to destroy Prophet Mohammed\u2019s tomb risks Muslim division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Islam\u2019s most revered holy sites \u201d\u201c the tomb of the Prophet Mohammed \u201d\u201c could be destroyed and his body removed to an anonymous grave under plans which threaten to spark discord across the Muslim world.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial proposals are part of a consultation document by a leading Saudi academic which has been circulated among the supervisors of al-Masjid al-Nabawi mosque in Medina, where the remains of the Prophet are housed under the Green Dome, visited by millions of pilgrims and venerated as Islam\u2019s second-holiest site.<\/p>\n<p>The formal custodian of the mosque is Saudi Arabia\u2019s ageing monarch King Abdullah.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/saudi-arabias-proposal-to-destroy-prophet-mohammeds-tomb-and-move-remains-to-anonymous-grave-risks-new-muslim-division-30557589.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Islam\u2019s most revered holy sites \u201d\u201c the tomb of the Prophet Mohammed \u201d\u201c could be destroyed and his body removed to an anonymous grave under plans which threaten to spark discord across the Muslim world. The controversial proposals<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45737\">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":[39,50,42,426,203,155,108,559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45737","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=45737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}