{"id":35929,"date":"2017-12-09T15:03:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T10:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35929"},"modified":"2017-12-09T15:03:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T10:03:28","slug":"friday-prayers-held-outside-white-house-to-protest-trump-jerusalem-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35929","title":{"rendered":"Friday prayers held outside White House to protest Trump Jerusalem move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, Dec 09 (TNS):<\/strong> Hundreds of Muslims attended Friday prayers in front of the White House to protest President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the call of American Muslim organizations, worshippers laid out their prayer mats at a park in front of the president\u2019s residence. Wearing traditional Palestinian keffiyeh scarves or the colors of the Palestinian flag, protesters also held placards denouncing Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump does not own a piece of soil of Jerusalem and Palestine. He owns the Trump Tower. He can give it away to the Israelis,\u201d Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told media.<\/p>\n<p>The president is \u201cempowering Christian religious extremism in the US,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking alongside other prominent figures from the American Muslim community during the protest, Awad called upon Trump to \u201cput the American interests first, not those of a foreign power and its lobbies in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Dec 09 (TNS): Hundreds of Muslims attended Friday prayers in front of the White House to protest President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Responding to the call of American Muslim organizations, worshippers laid out their prayer mats at a park in front of the president\u2019s residence. Wearing traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,303],"tags":[304,733],"class_list":["post-35929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-washington","tag-washington","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35929","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=35929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35931,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35929\/revisions\/35931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}