{"id":9128,"date":"2008-10-20T00:15:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/olympic_mosque_could_create_breeding_ground_for_extremists_says_senior_angl\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T00:15:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T00:15:07","slug":"olympic_mosque_could_create_breeding_ground_for_extremists_says_senior_angl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9128","title":{"rendered":"Olympic mosque could create breeding ground for extremists, says senior Anglican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Philip Lewis, an interfaith adviser to the Bishop of Bradford, said that the plans threaten to establish a ghetto of Muslims taught to embrace jihad.<\/p>\n<p>Tablighi Jamaat, the group behind the proposal, are &#8220;isolationist&#8221;, &#8220;patriarchal&#8221; and has a narrow reading of Islam that leaves it vulnerable to extremists, he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the first intervention by a Church figure over the controversial project, Dr Lewis raised fears that a 12,000-capacity mosque in London would lead to a segregated Muslim community. The mosque would be four times the size of Britain&#8217;s largest cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tablighi Jamaat does not try to engage with wider society so there must be clear worries that such a mosque would lead to a ghetto,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/3222602\/Olympic-mosque-could-create-breeding-ground-for-extremists-says-senior-Anglican.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Philip Lewis, an interfaith adviser to the Bishop of Bradford, said that the plans threaten to establish a ghetto of Muslims taught to embrace jihad. Tablighi Jamaat, the group behind the proposal, are &#8220;isolationist&#8221;, &#8220;patriarchal&#8221; and has a narrow<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9128\">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":[36,39,50,42,74,389,199,426,659,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128","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=9128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}