{"id":47165,"date":"2014-12-02T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_grand_mufti_of_egypt_to_be_ukip_guest_for_religion_debate_alon\/"},"modified":"2014-12-02T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T17:00:12","slug":"london_times_grand_mufti_of_egypt_to_be_ukip_guest_for_religion_debate_alon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47165","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Grand Mufti of Egypt to be Ukip guest for religion debate alongside Lord Carey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Islam\u2019s most senior clerics is due to travel to Britain this week to take part in a debate organised by Ukip on religious extremism.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Mufti of Egypt is expected to meet Nigel Farage and will join a panel discussion on youth radicalisation, according to the party\u2019s communities spokesman, Amjad Bashir.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bashir, an MEP and one of the party\u2019s most prominent Muslims, has billed the event as an opportunity to remind young people of \u201cthe teachings of their religion and developing strategies for combating religious intolerance\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Shawqi Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam is Egypt\u2019s leading religious authority. He has become one of the most prominent Muslim critics of Islamic State, denouncing it as \u201can extremist and bloody group that poses a danger to Islam and Muslims\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/politics\/article4284421.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Islam\u2019s most senior clerics is due to travel to Britain this week to take part in a debate organised by Ukip on religious extremism. The Grand Mufti of Egypt is expected to meet Nigel Farage and will join<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47165\">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":[36,39,40,50,42,74,389,560,168,161,426,203,659,155,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-egypt","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47165","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=47165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}