{"id":32544,"date":"2017-11-22T19:37:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32544"},"modified":"2017-11-22T19:37:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T14:37:35","slug":"israeli-jewishs-picture-in-masjid-e-nabvi-takes-internet-by-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32544","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Jewish\u2019s picture in Masjid-e-Nabvi takes internet by storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London, Nov. 22 (TNS):<\/strong> Social media erupted in anger at images of an Israeli citizen who took photos of himself in\u00a0the Prophet Muhammad\u2019s (pbuh) Mosque in Madina (Masjid-e-Nabwi), British media reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>BBC<\/em>\u00a0reports that Russian born Ben Tzion has a history of posting images at religious locations across the Middle East, from Iran to Jordan. The image of him inside Masjid-e-Nabwi was posted on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0Facebook post, he wrote: \u201cPeople of Saudi Arabia would stand with the Jewish nation side by side\u201d. \u201cPeace in the Middle East with respect and love towards each other\u201d, another of his\u00a0posts\u00a0stated.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with an Israeli newspaper, he referred to his penchant for visiting Muslim countries as \u201ca hobby\u201d and reiterated his\u00a0\u201crespect for other cultures and faiths\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32546\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Capture-14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Capture-14.png 637w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Capture-14-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Capture-14-528x420.png 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While non-Muslims are banned from entering the city of Makkah, religious sites in Madina are open to the public, Tzion has stressed. Tzion, who is a citizen of both Russia and Israel, did not disclose which passport he travelled with but stressed that he has always travelled legally and with the appropriate paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo-one in the Arab world ever approached me with hostility,\u201d he said. \u201cThey tell me they love Israel and the Jewish people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the backlash against the images of Tzion at Masjid-e-Nabwi has prompted an Arabic hashtag,\u00a0\u201cA Zionist at the Prophet\u2019s Mosque\u201d to go viral in the last space of 24 hours. Commentators expressed their frustration at seeing such images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, Nov. 22 (TNS): Social media erupted in anger at images of an Israeli citizen who took photos of himself in\u00a0the Prophet Muhammad\u2019s (pbuh) Mosque in Madina (Masjid-e-Nabwi), British media reported on Wednesday. BBC\u00a0reports that Russian born Ben Tzion has a history of posting images at religious locations across the Middle East, from Iran to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,491],"tags":[247,733],"class_list":["post-32544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-london","tag-london","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32547,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32544\/revisions\/32547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}